Hemingway's Dark Night
Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest Hemingway
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Denominations, Catholic, Catholicism
| Author: | Matthew Nickel | ISBN: | 1230000282046 |
| Publisher: | New Street Communications, LLC | Publication: | November 22, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Matthew Nickel |
| ISBN: | 1230000282046 |
| Publisher: | New Street Communications, LLC |
| Publication: | November 22, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
PRAISE:
"Ernest Hemingway considered himself a writer first and foremost. For him, the word needed no epithet: not American, not Catholic, not contemporary, although he was proudly all those things. In his iceberg theory of writing, Hemingway allowed that eighty percent of the meaning was concealed. If a story were well enough written, the astute reader would detect much of what had been left out. Matthew Nickel is a thorough and careful scholar. He has delved beneath the surface and has found a treasure trove of meaning. This book will enrich every reader’s understanding of Hemingway, the man and his work." - Valerie Hemingway, author of Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways
"Nickel’s scholarship is impeccable, thoroughgoing and perspicacious. ... Far from being a matter of what Hemingway called 'dusty ... disputed dialectics,' this volume is a cutting-edge study of the most urgent concerns of one of our greatest writers. Don’t just put it on your shelves, dear reader, read it and reread it, teach it, live it and relive it with Hemingway." - H.R. Stoneback, President of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, Distinguished Professor of English, SUNY New Paltz, author of Hemingway's Paris: Our Paris? and other books
"Matt Nickel has written a very strong Catholic reading of all of Hemingway, grounded in lucid textuality and exhaustive research. [Nickel] documents the irrefutable presence of Catholic authors in Hemingway's writing - from Baudelaire and Eliot to Dante and St. John of the Cross ... Equally important is Nickel's presentation of Hemingway's intentionally submerged spirituality, a profound treatment that readers and critics of Hemingway will find unexpected and invaluable, whether they want to or not." - Allen Josephs, past president of the Hemingway Foundation and Society, author of On Hemingway and Spain: Essays and Reviews, 1979 - 2013.
Speaking to an interviewer in 1957, British novelist Evelyn Waugh commented that Hemingway was “really at heart a Catholic author, you know."
In this groundbreaking study, Matthew Nickel explores Hemingway's Catholic faith through close scrutiny of his fiction and other writings. Using previously unpublished Hemingway letters, Nickel reveals how Hemingway's profound sacramental sense of ritual, pilgrimage and sacrifice informed his work ... and his life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matthew Nickel holds a PhD in literature from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His writing on American and British literature has appeared in journals and scholarly volumes such as North Dakota Quarterly, Ernest Hemingway in Context, Reading Roberts: Prospect & Retrospect, and Durrell and the City: Collected Essays on Place. Nickell is assistant professor of history at Misericordia University.
PRAISE:
"Ernest Hemingway considered himself a writer first and foremost. For him, the word needed no epithet: not American, not Catholic, not contemporary, although he was proudly all those things. In his iceberg theory of writing, Hemingway allowed that eighty percent of the meaning was concealed. If a story were well enough written, the astute reader would detect much of what had been left out. Matthew Nickel is a thorough and careful scholar. He has delved beneath the surface and has found a treasure trove of meaning. This book will enrich every reader’s understanding of Hemingway, the man and his work." - Valerie Hemingway, author of Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways
"Nickel’s scholarship is impeccable, thoroughgoing and perspicacious. ... Far from being a matter of what Hemingway called 'dusty ... disputed dialectics,' this volume is a cutting-edge study of the most urgent concerns of one of our greatest writers. Don’t just put it on your shelves, dear reader, read it and reread it, teach it, live it and relive it with Hemingway." - H.R. Stoneback, President of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, Distinguished Professor of English, SUNY New Paltz, author of Hemingway's Paris: Our Paris? and other books
"Matt Nickel has written a very strong Catholic reading of all of Hemingway, grounded in lucid textuality and exhaustive research. [Nickel] documents the irrefutable presence of Catholic authors in Hemingway's writing - from Baudelaire and Eliot to Dante and St. John of the Cross ... Equally important is Nickel's presentation of Hemingway's intentionally submerged spirituality, a profound treatment that readers and critics of Hemingway will find unexpected and invaluable, whether they want to or not." - Allen Josephs, past president of the Hemingway Foundation and Society, author of On Hemingway and Spain: Essays and Reviews, 1979 - 2013.
Speaking to an interviewer in 1957, British novelist Evelyn Waugh commented that Hemingway was “really at heart a Catholic author, you know."
In this groundbreaking study, Matthew Nickel explores Hemingway's Catholic faith through close scrutiny of his fiction and other writings. Using previously unpublished Hemingway letters, Nickel reveals how Hemingway's profound sacramental sense of ritual, pilgrimage and sacrifice informed his work ... and his life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matthew Nickel holds a PhD in literature from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His writing on American and British literature has appeared in journals and scholarly volumes such as North Dakota Quarterly, Ernest Hemingway in Context, Reading Roberts: Prospect & Retrospect, and Durrell and the City: Collected Essays on Place. Nickell is assistant professor of history at Misericordia University.
