Faulkner and Hemingway : biography of a literary rivalry / Joseph Fruscione.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fruscione, Joseph, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Literary quarrels--United States--20th century.

Literary quarrels.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Contemporaries.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Criticism and interpretation.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Contemporaries.

Contemporaries.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 263 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2012]

Summary:

In the first book of its kind, Joseph Fruscione examines the contentious relationship of two titans of American modernism-William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. At times, each voiced a shared literary and professional respect; at other times, each thought himself the superior craftsman and spoke of the other disparagingly. Their rivalry was rich, nuanced, and vexed, embodying various attitudes-one-upmanship, respect, criticism, and praise. Their intertextual contest-what we might call their modernist dialectic-was manifested textually through their fiction, nonfiction, letters, Nobel Prize addresses, and spoken remarks. Their intertextual relationship was highly significant for both authors: it was unusual for the reclusive Faulkner to engage so directly and so often with a contemporary, and for the hypercompetitive Hemingway to admit respect for-and possible inferiority to-a rival writer. Their joint awareness spawned an influential, allusive, and sparring intertext in which each had a psychocompetitive hold on the other. Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry-part analytical study, part literary biography-illustrates how their artistic paths and performed masculinities clashed frequently, as the authors measured themselves against each other and engendered a mutual psychological influence. Although previous scholarship has noted particular flare-ups and textual similarities, most of it has tended to be more implicit in outlining the broader narrative of Faulkner and Hemingway as longtime rivals. Building on such scholarship, Faulkner and Hemingway offers a more overt study of how these authors' published and archival work traces a sequence of psychological influence, cross-textual reference, and gender performance over some three decades. Book jacket.

Contents:

Modernism, postwar manhood, and the individual talent : maturing in the 1920s

Petulant jibes, catfishlike uncatfishivity, and Hemingwaves : the rivalry escalates in the 1930s

"Glad to shoot it out" : ranking and dueling in the 1940s

Nobel laureates, wolves, and higher-ranking writers : crescendo and decrescendo in the 1950s and 1960s

Rivals, matadors, and hunters : textual sparring and parallels.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814211748

0814211747

9780814292754

0814292755

OCLC:

729064991