Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction xiii
5. The Art of the Short Story 1
6. I. Critical Approaches
7. Narrative Voice: The Unifying Consciousness of a Divided Conscience: Nick Adams as Author of In Our Time 17
8. Semiotic Analysis: Decoding Papa: "A Very Short Story" As Work and Text 33
9. Lacanian Reading: Hemingway's "After the Storm": A Lacanian Reading 48
10. Structuralist Interpretation: Structuralism and Interpretation: Ernest Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain" 58
11. Textual Analysis: "That Always Absent Something Else": "A Natural History of the Dead" and Its Discarded Coda 73
12. Reception Theory: Reflection vs. Daydream: Two Types of the Implied Reader in Hemingway's Fiction 96
13. Feminist Perspective: "Actually, I Felt Sorry For the Lion" 112
14. Historical-Biographical Analysis: "Old Man at the Bridge": The Making of a Short Story 121
15. II. Story Technique and Themes
16. Hemingway's Apprentice Fiction: 1919-1921 137
17. The Troubled Fisherman 149
18. From "Sepi Jingan" to "The Mother of a Queen": Hemingway's Three Epistemologic Formulas for Short Fiction 156
19. Nada and the Clean, Well-Lighted Place: The Unity of Hemingway's Short Fiction 172
20. "OnIy Let the Story End As Soon As Possible": Time-and-History in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time 192
21. "Long Time Ago Good, Now No Good": Hemingway's Indian Stories 200
22. III. Story Interpretations
23. Hemingway's "Banal Story" 215
24. "This Is My Pal Bugs": Ernest Hemingway's "The Battler" 224
25. Preparing for the End: Hemingway's Revisions of "A Canary for One" 229
26. El Pueblo Español: "The Capital of the World" 238
27. The Poor Kitty and the Padrone and the Tortoise-shell Cat in "Cat in the Rain" 245
28. Hemingway's "The Denunciation": The Aloof American 257
29. To Embrace or Kill: Fathers and Sons 266
30. Wise-Guy Narrator and Trickster Out-Tricked in Hemingway's "Fifty Grand" 275
31. A Reading of Hemingway's "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" 282
32. Gender-Linked Miscommunication in "Hills Like White Elephants" 288
33. Hemingway's Primitivism and "Indian Camp" 300
34. Hemingway's "The Killers": The Map and the Territory 309
35. "The Last Good Country": Again the End of Something 314
36. Nick Adams and the Search for Light 321
37. "Nobody Ever Dies!": Hemingway's Fifth Story of the Spanish Civil War 331
38. Hemingway's "Out of Season": The End of the Line 341
39. Perversion and the Writer in "The Sea Change" 347
40. Coming of Age in Hortons Bay: Hemingway's "Up in Michigan" 353
41. Crazy in Sheridan: Hemingway's "Wine of Wyoming" Reconsidered 360
42. IV. An Overview of the Criticism
43. A Partial Review: Critical Essays on the Short Stories, 1976-1989 375
44. V. A Comprehensive Checklist of Hemingway Short Fiction Criticism, Explication, and Commentary, 1975-1989
45. Preface to the Comprehensive Checklist 395
46. Section I: Books on Hemingway's Work Containing Discussion of the Short Stories 395
47. Section II: Articles, Books Devoted to Hemingway's Work, Books Not Exclusively Devoted to Hemingway, and Dissertations Containing Discussion of Severol Hemingway Short Stories 402
48. Section III. Criticism, Explication, and Commentary on Individual Stories, Listed by Story-Including Specific Articles, Segments from Books on Hemingway's Work, and Segments from General Books 417
49. Notes and References 459
50. About the Contributors 507