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Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon"
Miriam B. Mandel
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Description for Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon"
Hardback. In this definitive study of Hemingway's masterpiece on bull-fighting, Miriam Mandel addresses not only Hemingway's tome, but the bullfighting and the Spain of his time. Num Pages: 696 pages, 19 photographs, 37 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBB; 2ABM; ASZX; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 39. Weight in Grams: 839.
The exotic and poetic beauty of the bullfight has captured the imagination of observers and readers for decades. No book has explained and disseminated this ancient art with as much power as Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. Since its publication in 1932, this classic study has shaped American notions of Spain and the Spanish art of bullfighting. Preceded by the short stories and novels that firmly established Hemingway as a master of modernist fiction, Death in the Afternoon is Hemingway's first volume of nonfiction prose, a medium which enables him to explore his life, his art, his times, and ... Read more
The exotic and poetic beauty of the bullfight has captured the imagination of observers and readers for decades. No book has explained and disseminated this ancient art with as much power as Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. Since its publication in 1932, this classic study has shaped American notions of Spain and the Spanish art of bullfighting. Preceded by the short stories and novels that firmly established Hemingway as a master of modernist fiction, Death in the Afternoon is Hemingway's first volume of nonfiction prose, a medium which enables him to explore his life, his art, his times, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
696
Condition
New
Number of Pages
696
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810839960
SKU
V9780810839960
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About Miriam B. Mandel
Miriam B. Mandel, former Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Literatures of Tel Aviv University, has published articles on Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others.Her books include Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions (1995; paperback edition, 2001) and Hemingway's The Dangerous Summer: The Complete Annotations (2008), both published by Scarecrow.
Reviews for Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon"
It would be easy to overlook Death in the Afternoon; most of us think of Hemingway as a writer of fiction; it would also be easy to overlook a bulky, substantial reference work devoted to Death in the Afternoon. Both oversights would be a mistake.
Languages and Literature
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