附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-366) and index.
Editor's Note; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction / Susan F. Beegel; 1. "The Mercenaries": A Harbinger of Vintage Hemingway / Mimi Reisel Gladstein; 2. Uncle Charles in Michigan / Susan Swartzlander; 3. Ethical Narration in "My Old Man" / Phillip Sipiora; 4. "Out of Season" and Hemingway's Neglected Discovery: Ordinary Actuality / James Steinke; 5. Hemingway's Italian Waste Land: The Complex Unity of "Out of Season" / Bickford Sylvester; 6. "A Very Short Story" as Therapy / Scott Donaldson; 7. The Bullfight Story and Critical Theory / Bruce Henricksen.
8. From the Waste Land to the Garden with the Elliots / Paul Smith9. Hemingway's "On Writing": A Portrait of the Artist as Nick Adams / Lawrence Broer; 10. The Writer on Vocation: Hemingway's ""Banal Story"" / George Monteiro; 11. Hemingway and Turgenev: 'The Torrents of Spring' / Robert Coltrane; 12. "An Alpine Idyll": The Sun-Struck Mountain Vision and the Necessary Valley Journey / Robert E. Gajdusek; 13. Waiting for the End in Hemingway's "A Pursuit Race" / Ann Putnam ; 14. A Semiotic Inquiry into Hemingway's "A Simple Enquiry" / Gerry Brenner.
15. "Mais Je Reste Catholique" : Communion, Betrayal, and Aridity in "Wine of Wyoming" / H.R. Stoneback16. "That's Not Very Polite" : Sexual Identity in Hemingway's "The Sea Change" / Warren Bennett; 17. "A Natural History of the Dead" as Metafiction / Charles Stetler and Gerald Locklin; 18. "Homage to Switzerland" : Einstein's Train Stops at Hemingway's Station / Michael S. Reynolds; 19. Repetition as Design and Intention: Hemingway's "Homage to Switzerland" / Erik Nakjavani; 20. Myth or Reality: "The Light of the World" as Initiation Story / Robert E. Fleming.
21. Up and Down: Making Connections in "A Day's Wait" / Linda Gajdusek22. Illusion and Reality: "The Capital of the World" / Stephen Cooper; 23. Hemingway's Spanish Civil War Stories, or the Spanish Civil War as Reality / Allen Josephs; 24. The Hunting Story in 'The Garden of Eden' / James Nagel; 25. Hemingway's Tales of "The Real Dark" / Howard L. Hannum; List of Contributors; Bibliography; Index.
摘要:In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titledin our time, the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway's story collection In Our Time. Those vignettes, as Milton Cohen demonstrates inHemingway's Laboratory, reveal a range of voices, narrative strategies, and fictional interests more wide-ranging and experimental than any other extant work of Hemingway's. Further, they provide a vivid view of his earliest tendencies and influences, first manifestations of the style that would become his hallm.
