Twentieth Century Interpretations of a Farewell to Arms: A Collection of Critical Essays

by Jay Gellens

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133031802
• ISBN13: 9780133031805
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

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Enjoyable literary criticism

This collection of essays on Hemingway's 'Farewell to Arms' is edited and introduced by Jay Gellens. In an especially fine introductory essay he summarizes the division of opinion in regard to this 1929 novel. He includes essays like that of D.S. Savage 'Ciphers of the Front' that are strongly critical in the novel. But in the overwhelming opinion is that this is one of Hemingway's finest works. Ray B. West writes an extremely intelligent essay in which he points out how Hemingway continually seeks , what might be called an authenticity of sensibility. Instead of all the world of formal obligations , religious and otherwise , the Hemingway hero's ethic is based on a truth to his own feeling, the moral being defined as what one feels good about afterwards. Among other critics who contribute to this anthology are: Philip Young, Earl Rovit, Robert W. Lewis Jr. John killinger, Norman Friedman, Frederick J. Hoffman, leslie Fielder.