Literary Topics, Volume 2: Ernest Hemingway and the Expatriate Modernist Movement

Literary Topics (Gale) #2

by Kirk Curnutt

Gale's Study Guides to Great Literature, appropriate for high school readers and, perhaps, somewhat older students who need somewhere to start, include three components: Literary Masters, Literary Masterpieces, and Literary Topics. The Literary Topics volumes explore particular themes in terms of their history and context, representative writers, connection with other literary movements, hallmark works, critical responses, and resources for further study (study questions, literary terms, and bibliography). Each volume contains the same brief introduction by Denis Donoghue (English and American letters, New York University); the credentials of the author are not cited.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1999

About the author

Kirk Curnutt is the author of twelve volumes of fiction and literary criticism. His first novel, Breathing Out the Ghost, won the 2008 Best Books of Indiana competition in the fiction category. It also won a bronze IPPY and was a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year finalist. His second novel, Dixie Noir, was published in November 2009. Other recent works include Key West Hemingway, co-edited with Gail D. Sinclair (UP of Florida), The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the fictional dialogue with Ernest Hemingway Coffee with Hemingway (with a preface by John Updike), and the short-story collection Baby, Let’s Make a Baby, Plus Ten More Stories. The recipient of a 2007-08 Alabama State Arts Council literary fellowship, he is currently at work on a nonfiction account of the 1956 attack on Nat King Cole in Birmingham.

Reviews

[Katielee · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a quite complete research on lost generation.

[David Absalom]

Thoroughly enjoyed and learned at the same time. It is difficult for me to rate it as it is a study guide. I learned about the Paris expatriate movement.