War in Ernest Hemingway's For whom the bell tolls
By: Gary Wiener, book editor
Series: Social issues in literature
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780737763935; 9780737763942
Subjects: War in literature; History; Spain; Literature and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Background on Ernest Hemingway. The life of Ernest Hemingway / Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature; title: Hemingway learned and lost from his war experiences / Peter Moreira; title: Writers tell the truth about war / Ernest Hemingway; title: For Hemingway, war was inevitable and criminal / Erik Nakjavani; title: Hemingway kept politics out of his art / Frederick R. Benson; title: For whom the bell tolls and war. Hemingway depicts war as a test of moral character / E.L. Doctorow; title: Hemingway shows all sides of war / Peter Messent; title: Hemingway refused to write war propaganda / Samuel Shaw; title: Robert Jordan learns about the complexity of war / Jeffrey Walsh; title: Hemingway's characters fight for a cause / Peter L. Hays; title: Robert Jordan is a Hemingway hero who wins / Philip Young; title: For whom the bells tolls is a novel about how to die / Scott Donaldson; title: Pilar's massacre story depicts the brutality of humankind / Allen Josephs; title: For whom the bell tolls is a war epic / Carlos Baker; title: Maria is a victim of war / Charles J. Nolan, Jr.; title: Contemporary perspectives on war. The Afghanistan War must be won / The economist; title: The media fueled the run-up to the Iraq War / Matthew Rothschild; title: The Spanish Civil War offers important lessons about Iraq / Stephen Schwartz; title: America failed to accomplish its goals in Iraq / Jed Babbin; title: Obama's war tactics are subtle but deadly / Luiza Ch. Savage; title: Middle East revolutions may not lead to democracy / Pauline H. Baker.