“How did Ernest Hemingways experiences in World War I and the experiences of those he was close with inform the characters, events and themes of In Our Time?”
Approved sources with annotations (sources are also attached as PDF):
Daiker, Donald. In Defense of Hemigway’s Young Nick Adams: Everything Was Gone to Hell Inside of Me. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 57, no. 2, 2015, pp. 242257., doi:https://www.jstor.org/stable/26155300 .
This is an essay that, as its title implies, attempts to defend the character of Nick Adams from In Our Time. It begins by establishing that the character has received criticism over the years both in his morality and behavior, and for being a well-rounded, reasonable character, then analyzes passages, mostly from The End of Something and The Three-Day Blow to support the authors points. Since Nick Adams is the main character of the collection of stories I will be explicating, detailed analysis of his character is relevant. The paper also cites some examples of the mentioned criticism in academia, which could be useful should the essay veer in that direction.
Hemingway, Ernest. Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters: 1917-1961. Ernest Hemingway Foundation, Inc., 1981.
This is perhaps the most important and relevant source to my specific essay, as it is a collection of letters, written by Hemingway, himself (some editions of the book list the only author as Hemingway, himself, though light research concluded that the letters were released in the 1970s by his estate, then compiled by a third party for this book). Since my essay will analyze the authors own personal experiences and how they informed his work, this seems to be the most direct and primary source for gathering information about Hemingway and his experiences.
Moddelmog, Debra. The Unifying Consciousness of a Divided Conscience: Nick Adams as Author of In Our Time. American Literature, vol. 60, Dec. 1988, pp. 591610., doi:https://doi-org.aurarialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.2307/2926659 .
This is an interesting article that seeks to address some critics of In Our Time that argue that Hemingway, at times, lost the thread of telling Nick Adamss story, and inserted his own autobiographical information and anecdotes carelessly. The article analyzes Hemingways experiences that might have informed these moments, and his style, both of which seem useful in my own analysis. The critics cited here may also serve as good direction should I need more sources that might support this notion of autobiography that the author actually argues against, as well.
Vaughn, Elizabeth. In Our Time as Self-Begetting Fiction. Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, 1989, pp. 707716., doi:https://www.jstor.org/stable/26283371 .
This essay explores the idea of In Our Time as a work of metafiction, and the relationship between fiction and reality. Given that my topic loosely pertains to the way the reality informs fiction in this specific case, the work is relevant. Unique among the other sources Ive selected, this essay breaks down the specific language and mechanics of the writing of the stories, themselves, which could provide another avenue to explore in my own essay.
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