The Hemingway Short Story A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers (Audible Audio Edition) Robert Paul Lamb Kirk Hanley University Press Audiobooks Books
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In his highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed Art Matters Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story, Robert Paul Lamb delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingway's exemplary stories to illuminate the author's methods of construction and to show how craft criticism complements and enhances cultural literary studies.
The Hemingway Short Story reconciles the creative writer's focus on art with the concerns of cultural critics, establishing the value that craft criticism holds for all readers.
Beautifully written in clear and engaging prose, Lamb's study presents close readings of representative Hemingway stories such as ''Soldier's Home,'' ''A Canary for One,'' ''God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen,'' and ''Big Two-Hearted River.'' Lamb's examination of ''Indian Camp,'' for instance, explores not only its biographical contexts - showing how details, incidents, and characters developed in the writer's mind and notebook as he transmuted life into art--but also its original, deleted opening and the final text of the story, uncovering otherwise unseen aspects of technique and new terrains of meaning. Lamb proves that a writer is not merely a site upon which cultural forces contend, but a professional in his or her craft who makes countless conscious decisions in creating a literary text.
Revealing how the short story operates as a distinct literary genre, Lamb provides the detailed readings that the form demands - showing Hemingway practicing his craft, offering new inclusive interpretations of much debated stories, reevaluating critically neglected stories, analyzing how craft is inextricably entwined with a story's cultural representations, and demonstrating the many ways in which careful examinations of stories reward us.
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The Hemingway Short Story A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers (Audible Audio Edition) Robert Paul Lamb Kirk Hanley University Press Audiobooks Books Reviews
Understanding the iceberg theory, I like to let Hemingway's work do its magic with what is on the page.
Lamb is historically knowledgeable and has an interesting scholarly style, but for me, it was over-written and I did not find it necessary to add it to my library
Lamb has now written two books on Hemingway's short stories. I read the first volume, Art Matters Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story, a couple of months ago and, despite the fact that I have never actually liked Hemingway all that much, I thought it was one of, if not the best work of literary criticism I had ever read. So I was excited to read his follow up volume and I was not disappointed. I actually think this second volume might be even better than the first, although it does help to read them in order since Lamb uses a lot of the terminology he developed in the first book, to describe Hemingway's general aesthetics, in this book.
While the first book was a broad overview of Hemingway's general aesthetics and philosophy of the short story, this book is an extremely close reading (line by line in most cases) of five Hemingway short stories Indian Camp, Soldier's Home, A Canary for One, God Rest You, Merry Gentelman and Big Two-Hearted River. Lamb's analyses are extremely detailed. Indian Camp is only about 8 pages long in the edition of Hemingway's stories that I have, but Lamb's analysis of the story is over 80 pages long. Lamb goes through the story sentence by sentence and attempts to explain Hemingway's craft his word choice, his use of focalization, as well as his use of indirection and omission. Lamb explains in detail how each word contributes to the overall effect, as well as the themes, of the story.
While Lamb's analyses are detailed they never become overly far-fetched. Most literary critics would find it difficult to write 80 pages on an 8 page story and would veer off into the speculative or the biographical in an effort to find something to say. Lamb sticks to the stories and manages to convince the reader that everything he sees in the story really is there. That is a huge achievement. Usually when I read a work of literary criticism I would say about fifty percent of what I read really resonates with me and the other fifty percent seems overly far-fetched or uninteresting, but almost everything Lamb had to say about Hemingway's stories resonated with me.
There are very few works of criticism that focus in so much detail on the craft of writing. As Lamb points out in his introduction, the kind of analysis he provides is closer to what you would get if you were taking a class on creative writing, as opposed to taking a class in American literature. However, Lamb argues persuasively that considerations of craft are more important to actual writers than the usual kinds of analyses (thematic, cultural, political, psychological, etc.) offered by most literary critics. Lamb is not opposed to other forms of literary criticism but he points out that there is a huge gap in our critical literature. Lamb has shown in his two books on Hemingway how enlightening a craft analysis of literature can be and, one can only hope, that other literary critics will read Lamb's work and attempt to fill in that gap by writing their own books about the craft of other writers. I would kill for a book that was as detailed and interesting as Lamb's on Faulkner, Lawrence, Joyce, Chekhov, and any number of other writers.
I will just give one example of the differences in perspective that can result from a focus on craft. One of the stories Lamb analyzes is "A Canary for One." The story takes place on a train and Lamb asks, Why a train? Of course, it would be possible to offer various symbolic interpretations the train must follow a single track, it is a symbol of the narrator's lack of control, etc. Those analyses are not wrong, and they can certainly be interesting, but they might not be uppermost in the writer's mind. The writer has to struggle with different problems. For example Hemingway needs the narrator and his wife to be together without talking to each other. If he put them in a car they would have to talk to each other or there would be no dialogue at all (unless there was a third person, but why is she there?, etc.). Setting the story in a train resolves that problem because there can be a third person in the train compartment (the American lady).
Most literary critics would simply skip over the actual function of the train in the story and focus on its symbolic aspects but this gives a somewhat distorted picture of what the writer is doing and what he is trying to achieve. The writer is not just trying to construct symbols. He is trying to communicate something (an effect) and construct something (a story). It is possible to analyze how something like a train helps to produce the desired effect without providing a symbolic interpretation (although the symbolic interpretation might also add something to the effect of the story). It is not an either/or but a both/and situation. We do not need to give up the symbolic in favor of the "functional" (I don't think Lamb uses that word, that is my own short-hand) but it is certainly true that most literary criticism has been one sided in the sense that it focuses on the symbolic and ignores the "functional".
Lamb has a great quote from Northrop Frye in the introduction to his book. Frye wrote that, in the history of criticism, "every increase of appreciation has been right, and every decrease wrong...criticism has no business to react against things, but should show a steady advance toward undiscriminating catholicity." I think the best measure of the success of Lamb's book is this before I read Lamb's book I found Hemingway's stories to be fairly uninteresting and dry; after reading Lamb's book Hemingway's short stories have become infinitely interesting to me and extremely powerful. Lamb has increased my appreciation for Hemingway's craft more than I would have thought possible, and that, as Northrop Frye said, is what the best literary criticism should do.
Great Book.
Great analysis & assessment of the work of Hemingway.
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