The Troubled Fisherman

Lynn, Kenneth S.

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New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway 1990

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The Troubled Fisherman

Kenneth S. Lynn¹

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“…As Ross wrote, "Hemingway wrote to me after the Profile [sic] appeared and said he had found it 'funny' and 'good.'" 468 She and the author remained close friends until his death.However, according to Hemingway biographer Kenneth Lynn, the author later acknowledged to a friend that the profile showed him in an unflattering light 469. Regardless ofHemingway's personal opinion or the reasons why readers and critics took issue with the profile, the image of Hemingway as intolerant and curmudgeonly-as well as masculine and domineering-was one that Hemingway himself had been perpetuating in his nonfiction for over twenty years.…”

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The American tradition of the literary interview, 1840-1956

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The American Tradition of the Literary Interview 1840 -1956: A Cultural History" is the first study to document the development of the literary interview in the United States. A handful of critics have discussed the literary interview and traced it back to various European cultural traditions; however, I argue that, like the interview, which the British journalist William Stead wrote "was a distinctly American invention," the literary interview was a particularly American form. Drawing on archival research and new readings of primary sources, this project examines the literary interview's systemic growth and formal characteristics between 1842 and 1956. I trace connections among the American press, culture, and literary marketplace to offer an as-yet unwritten history of the literary interview. During Charles Dickens's 1842 North American tour, the first literary interviews were published in written-up, or paragraph form and resembled written snapshots or sketches. As a result of the cult of domesticity and the popular scandals of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the literary interview developed into a slightly longer and more narrative form that focused on an author's surroundings and living quarters. With the rise of yellow journalism and muckraking reporting during the first decades of the twentieth century, the literary interview became a more investigative and intrusive form; yet at the same time, the first in-depth, literary conversations with American authors were published. During the interwar period, the second wave of "girl reporters" and lady interviews transformed the written-up literary interview into a more nuanced form that exhibited rhetorical and literary flourishes. With the development of the New Yorker profile and the Paris Review interview in the mid-twentieth century, the literary interview branched off into two distinct modes: the profile and the author Q & A. This history of the literary interview offers a model of reading mass media communications in terms of both content and form. In doing so, this project challenges the critical frameworks that dismiss the literary interview as ancillary to literature and articulate the importance of interviews, communication, and conversation in American culture. Abstract Approved: managed to steer me in the right direction every time, and the other members of my committee-Harry Stecopoulos, Brooks Landon, Garrett Stewart, and Russell Valentino-who have mentored me as a student, a teacher, a scholar, and a writer. I am grateful to the members of the English Department at the University of Iowa for their generous assistance and guidance and to the administrators of the Frank Writing Center at the Tippie College of Business for making me a better editor. I am indebted to my first mentor Judith Pascoe, who knew that my dissertation would examine the connections among literary theory, literary history, and creative writing practices long before I did. I would also like to thank those who read drafts of this dissertation along the way: Michael

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