Hemingway and Faulkner in Their Time - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826418252 ISBN 13: 9780826418258

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2006

Synopsis

John Steinbeck 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; they died a year apart, almost to the day; each won the Nobel Prize. It is as much biography as critique, a short, happy reference work that sometimes tells more about the commentators than their subjects. Among the writers on the writers, there is Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Conrad Aiken, W. H. Auden, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and many others. This book is not only a valuable addition to literary scholarship, it is also a unique re-creation of an era in American culture.

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About the Author

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.

Review

"Editors Earl Rovit adn Arthur Waldhorn have collected musings on two of America's greatest novelists. Hemingway and Faulkner in Their Time compares and contrasts these contemporaries, who never met, through the articles, journals, and interviews of their peers. These peers include Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, and Eudora Welty. While some of these reflections are notably gossipy, what emerges is a portrait of two writers, each skeptical and ironic, each giving bold, brash commentary on American life, whose writing styles - and lifestyles - were near polar opposites; yet both men were pioneers in American literature, and neither wrote to please others." -Foreword, Sept/Oct 05


"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 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 (Sanford Lakoff)

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826418252
• ISBN 13: 9780826418258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Rovit Earl, Waldhorn Arthur