Contributor
Wiener, Gary.
Imprint:Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2013.
Description181 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction -- Background on Ernest Hemingway. The life of Ernest Hemingway / Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature -- Hemingway learned and lost from his war experiences / Peter Moreira -- Writers tell the truth about war / Ernest Hemingway -- For Hemingway, war was inevitable and criminal / Erik Nakjavani -- Hemingway kept politics out of his art / Frederick R. Benson -- For whom the bell tolls and war. Hemingway depicts war as a test of moral character / E.L. Doctorow -- Hemingway shows all sides of war / Peter Messent -- Hemingway refused to write war propaganda / Samuel Shaw -- Robert Jordan learns about the complexity of war / Jeffrey Walsh -- Hemingway's characters fight for a cause / Peter L. Hays -- Robert Jordan is a Hemingway hero who wins / Philip Young -- For whom the bells tolls is a novel about how to die / Scott Donaldson -- Pilar's massacre story depicts the brutality of humankind / Allen Josephs -- For whom the bell tolls is a war epic / Carlos Baker -- Maria is a victim of war / Charles J. Nolan, Jr. -- Contemporary perspectives on war. The Afghanistan War must be won / The economist -- The media fueled the run-up to the Iraq War / Matthew Rothschild -- The Spanish Civil War offers important lessons about Iraq / Stephen Schwartz -- America failed to accomplish its goals in Iraq / Jed Babbin -- Obama's war tactics are subtle but deadly / Luiza Ch. Savage -- Middle East revolutions may not lead to democracy / Pauline H. Baker.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index.
Note:Each volume of Social Issues in Literature explores a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features carefully-selected content representing a variety of perspectives, and includes biographical and critical information about the author, secondary excerpts (articles by various literary critics) offering both historical and contemporary views of the highlighted social issue, a timeline of the author's life, and a "For Further Reading" section of other works on the issue, and a detailed subject index.
