Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story

by Robert Paul Lamb

Book Overview

In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Examining how Hemingway developed this inheritance, Lamb insightfully charts the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807140031
• ISBN13: 9780807140031
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"