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Linda Wagner-Martin, The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism
No full textLinda Wagner-Martin, The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism (Book Review
Linda Wagner-Martin. — New Essays on The Sun Also Rises
No full textHily-Mane Geneviève. Linda Wagner-Martin. — New Essays on The Sun Also Rises. In: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, N°36, avril 1988. Les lieux de la vie américaine. p. 315
The American Short Story and Me
No full textMemoir by preeminent American literature scholar and teacher Linda Wagner-Martin on the role of short fiction in her career. Reflects on the evolving publishing industry over the past five decades and her unwavering commitment to explication, among other methodologies, in research and teaching. Closes by identifying short stories worthy of future study. Brief references to Hemingway throughout. Wagner-Martin\u27s thoughtful retrospection exemplifies above all that though our greatest teachers may retire from the classroom, they never stop teaching
The Romance of Desire in Hemingway’s Fiction
No full textContending that Hemingway equated love with erotic desire, Wagner-Martin argues that most of his texts are romances in which female characters exist in relation to the male. Drawing on John G. Cawelti’s theories of romance, Wagner-Martin provides a detailed analysis of A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls to illustrate how even war scenes reinforce the conventional romance. Includes a brief discussion of A Moveable Feast, “A Room on the Garden Side,” and Hemingway’s 1950s letters to Adriana Ivancich to ultimately characterize Hemingway as “an inventive writer of erotica.
The Secrecies of the Public Hemingway
No full textExamines Blasco Ibanez’s influence on Hemingway, especially in writing about masculine honor, bullfights, and the sea. Wagner-Martin holds that like all information Hemingway deemed important, he kept Ibanez’s influence on his writing to himself
William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism
No full textEdited by Linda Wagner-Martin Michigan State University Press (Hardcover, $29.95, ISBN: 0870136127, 10/2002) Few twentieth-century writers are as revered as William Faulkner. This collection brings together the best literary criticism on Faulkner from the last six decades, detailing the imaginative and passionate responses to his still-controversial novels. By focusing on the criticism rather than the works, Linda Wagner-Martin shows the primary directions in Faulkner’s influence on critics, writers, and students of American literature today. This invaluable volume reveals the patterns of change in literary criticism over time, while exploring the various critical streams—language theory, feminism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis—that have elevated Faulkner’s work to the highest rank of the American literary pantheon. Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Recent books include A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway, “Favored Strangers”: Gertrude Stein and Her Family, Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life, and a cultural edition of Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1458/thumbnail.jp
Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cather, Lewis, and the American Style
No full textAssesses Hemingway’s early contributions to American modernism evidenced in the experimental style and structure of his poetry and fiction. Wagner-Martin examines the author’s versatile treatment of love and war, particularly the traumatized condition of the returning veteran, in “Soldier’s Home,” “Big Two-Hearted River,” The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway’s \u3cem\u3eA Farewell to Arms\u3c/em\u3e: A Reference Guide
No full textReader’s companion to the novel’s genesis, composition, publication, and critical reception. Wagner-Martin situates the novel within its historical and cultural contexts, distinguishes the fictional account from Hemingway’s actual World War I experiences, and discusses the novel’s major themes and narrative prose style. Concludes with a bibliographical survey of the novel’s criticism from a variety of perspectives and theoretical lenses (e.g. gender theories, medical humanities)
The Intertextual Hemingway
No full textArgues that Hemingway borrows significant stylistic and thematic elements from other writers, at times to challenge their writing. Wagner-Martin detects instances of literary borrowing in Hemingway’s Spanish imagery, treatment of war, and protagonist type. She pays special attention to ways in which Hemingway’s heroes respond to those of Henry James, as well as Ford Madox Ford’s protagonist in The Good Soldier (1915), and concludes that some of the best elements of Hemingway’s fiction were inspired by his literary predecessors. Frequent references to The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Garden of Eden
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