{"product_id":"hemingways-art-of-revision-the-making-of-the-short-fiction-paperback-softback-9780807182253","title":"Hemingway's Art of Revision; The Making of the Short Fiction (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807182253","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHemingway's Art of Revision\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Making of the Short Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Beall (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807182253\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 April 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e310 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.464 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"John Beall's dazzling contribution to Hemingway scholarship is the first full-length study based on all extant archival material. It provides crucial insights into Hemingway's process of creation from initial fragments and ideas, through the development and continual revisions, to the final versions of the stories. Thoroughly original and persuasive, this is a must-read for anyone interested in Hemingway or the writing of fiction.\" - Robert Paul Lamb, author of \u003ci\u003eArt Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Beall's thoughtful, probing inquiries into Hemingway's short fiction examine these narratives not as fixed artifacts but rather as fluid texts that variously evolved through multiple drafts. This archival approach explodes the popular illusions of spontaneous artistry and confident style to reveal the nagging uncertainties that compelled the author to revise obsessively.\" - J. Gerald Kennedy, editor of the Norton Critical Edition of \u003ci\u003eIn Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHemingway's Art of Revision,\u003c\/i\u003e John Beall analyzes more than a dozen pieces of the author's celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and typescripts, as part of a broader examination of how Ernest Hemingway crafted his distinctive prose through a rigorous process of revision. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tRanging from two vignettes in the first version of \u003ci\u003eIn Our Time \u003c\/i\u003ethrough early touchstones such as \"Indian Camp\" and \"The Killers\" to later masterpieces including \"Fathers and Sons,\" Beall's study considers the modernist influences, aesthetic choices, and experimental effects that characterized Hemingway's approach to the short story. Revisions to \"Big Two-Hearted River,\" for example, were not simply cuts and omissions, but involved adding paragraphs to slow down the narrative and represent Nick Adams's careful observations of fish as he watched their shadows on the river. For \"A Way You'll Never Be,\" Hemingway's revisions developed Nick's interior monologues, manic lecture about grasshoppers, and wacky sense of humor to show the character restoring a sense of emotional balance despite his traumatic memories of being wounded. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tBy drawing attention to the meticulous omissions, additions, and replacements that shaped these texts, Beall reveals how extensively and richly Hemingway revised his drafts. \u003ci\u003eHemingway's Art of Revision\u003c\/i\u003e gives a detailed view of a great prose stylist at work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551794426136,"sku":"9780807182253","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hemingways-art-of-revision-the-making-of-the-short-fiction-paperback-softback-9780807182253","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}