Hemingway and Faulkner in Their Time: As Seen by Others, as Seen by Themselves

by Arthur Waldhorn (Editor), EarlRovit (Editor)

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2005
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Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner are generally recognized as the most influential American novelists of the 20th century. Their careers paralleled one another in significant ways - two of their fledgling poems coincidentally appeared in the same avant-garde little magazine, and their first important books were published in 1926; they died a year apart, almost to the day; each won the Nobel Prize. But the trajectories of these two lives and careers were also much different. This book is not only a valuable addition to literary scholarship, it is also a unique re-creation of an era in American culture and letters. By reprinting the actual words of contemporary writers in excerpts of this book marks the invention of a new form of literary appreciation and commentary. Among the writers on the writers, there is Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Conrad Alken, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wyndham Lewis, Allen Tate, Erskine Caldwell, Henry Miller, Thomas Wolfe, Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Lillian Ross, and many others.

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Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner are generally recognized as the most influential American novelists of the 20th century. Their careers paralleled one another in significant ways - two of their fledgling poems coincidentally appeared in the same avant-garde little magazine, and their first important books were published in 1926; they died a year apart, almost to the day; each won the Nobel Prize. But the trajectories of these two lives and careers were also much different. This book is not only a valuable addition to literary scholarship, it is also a unique re-creation of an era in American culture and letters. By reprinting the actual words of contemporary writers in excerpts of this book marks the invention of a new form of literary appreciation and commentary. Among the writers on the writers, there is Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Conrad Alken, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wyndham Lewis, Allen Tate, Erskine Caldwell, Henry Miller, Thomas Wolfe, Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Lillian Ross, and many others.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 01 Apr 2005
ISBN 10: 082641687X
ISBN 13: 9780826416872

Media Reviews

This book is anexcellent compendium of familiar voices (Anderson, Stein, and Fitzgerald) andvoices not at first associated with Hemingway and Faulkner (Frost, Nabokov, andBogan) whose assessments are nicely interwoven with the editors' commentary.The result is an admirably researched companion to Hemingway and Faulkner'soeuvres...Rovit and Waldhorn have given us a strong work of Hemingway-Faulknerscholarship showing how America's pre-eminent Modernists were 'locked [...] intowhat appears to be a remarkable shared identity' during their heated andcomplex rivalry. Hemingway and Faulknerin Their Time does admirably well in delineating the dynamics amongHemingway, Faulkner, and their contemporaries dynamics rife with criticism, sniping, and (begrudging) professional admiration -- The Hemingway Review , Fall 2005--Hemingway Review

This book is an excellent compendium of familiar voices (Anderson, Stein, and Fitzgerald) and voices not at first associated with Hemingway and Faulkner (Frost, Nabokov, and Bogan) whose assessments are nicely interwoven with the editors' commentary. The result is an admirably researched companion to Hemingway and Faulkner's oeuvres...Rovit and Waldhorn have given us a strong work of Hemingway-Faulkner scholarship showing how America's pre-eminent Modernists were 'locked [...] into what appears to be a remarkable shared identity' during their heated and complex rivalry. Hemingway and Faulkner in Their Time does admirably well in delineating the dynamics among Hemingway, Faulkner, and their contemporaries dynamics rife with criticism, sniping, and (begrudging) professional admiration - The Hemingway Review , Fall 2005 --Sanford Lakoff

Author Bio

EARL ROVIT is Professor Emeritus of English, The City College of New York, and is the author of Ernest Hemingway as well as several novels. Earl Rovit and Arthur Waldhorn are Professors Emeriti of The City College and veteran Hemingway scholars. They live in New York City. ARTHUR WALDHORN is also Professor Emeritus of English, CCNY, and the author of A Reader s Guide to Ernest Hemingway among other books.