Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hemingway's journalism and the realist dilemma
- 3 1924
- 4 In Our Time, out of season
- 5 Brett and the other women in The Sun Also Rises
- 6 A Farewell to Arms
- 7 Hemingway's late fiction
- 8 Hemingway and politics
- 9 Hemingway and gender history
- 10 Hemingway, Hadley, and Paris
- 11 Hemingway's Spanish sensibility
- 12 The Cuban context of The Old Man and the Sea
- 13 Conclusion
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Series List
13 - Conclusion
The critical reputation of Ernest Hemingway
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hemingway's journalism and the realist dilemma
- 3 1924
- 4 In Our Time, out of season
- 5 Brett and the other women in The Sun Also Rises
- 6 A Farewell to Arms
- 7 Hemingway's late fiction
- 8 Hemingway and politics
- 9 Hemingway and gender history
- 10 Hemingway, Hadley, and Paris
- 11 Hemingway's Spanish sensibility
- 12 The Cuban context of The Old Man and the Sea
- 13 Conclusion
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Series List
Summary
And you only have to do it once to get remembered by some people. But if you can do it year after year after year quite a lot of people remember and they tell their children and their children and their grandchildren remember, and if it's books they can read them. And if it's good enough it lasts forever.
- Ernest HemingwayCritical reputation is the reputation an author enjoys among critics, that cadre of literary professionals who decide which books will be treated as serious and important when they are published, and which will be taught in our high schools, colleges, and universities as examples of American literature. An author of great critical reputation is an author whose work is widely believed to be of permanent value in changing times, an author likely to be read by future generations yet unborn. We call the process of attaining such a critical reputation “canonization,” after the process the Roman Catholic Church uses to decide whether an individual deserves public veneration and may be included in the calendar of saints.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway , pp. 269 - 300Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996
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