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Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism is the fourth collection of essays edited by Linda Wagner-Martin in this series that has become an essential guide to the best contemporary criticism regarding the work (and life) of Ernest Hemingway. Several of the essays discuss Hemingway's life, including the first, which focuses on his own wounding in World War I. Other contributors examine "wounding" of many kinds -- guilt, disability, loss, and mourn...

This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist and a full-length study of the novel.

Linda Wagner-Martin è stata la prima studiosa a consultare i diari e la corrispondenza privata di Sylvia Plath, a sciogliere molti dei nodi di una vita breve e sofferta, proiettando una luce nuova sugli angoli più nascosti, sulle ombre più buie, sui momenti di vita che la grande poetessa americana teneva per sé, in "botti" di pudore, sofferenza e dolore. Oggi Sylvia Plath è riconosciuta come una delle poetesse più importanti del Novecento, la ...

Once again Linda Wagner-Martin has selected an important collection of essays that cover some of the more interesting dimensions of Ernest Hemingway's fiction. Although the book opens with pieces from the 1920s by D.H. Lawrence and Gertrude Stein, it emphasizes criticism written during the past decade. In the 1980s and 1990s, Hemingway's fiction has sparked a renaissance of attention and critics have moved with alacrity beyond their earlier ap...