The Novels of Ernest Hemingway: A Critical Study (Hardbound - 2018)

The present book provides a critical analysis of all the novels and short stories of Ernest Hemingway, a twentieth-century American novelist who got Nobel Prize for Literature. Hemingway is a writer of lost generation, of an era of chaos and disillusionment, but his approach is neither defeatist nor negative in nature; instead, it is something vigorously optimistic and positive in spirit. What Hemingway seeks to tell us through his novels and short stories is indeed important, but far more important is the way, the mode in which he tells us. It is in this course that a proper emphasis has been given in the present book on the use of symbols and images in his novels and short stories besides other trends and techniques in his writings. Undoubtedly, this book will be a boon for the scholars of Ernest Hemingway.

Ishteyaque Shams teaches English in R.L.S.Y. College, Bettiah, a constituent unit of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University. He has had a distinguished academic career. He did his M.A. in English securing first position in first class and Ph.D. from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur. He also holds P.G. degrees in Hindi, Urdu, History and Political Science and B.Ed. and LL.B. and Diploma in French and Russian Languages and PGDTE (Hybd.).

Dr. Shams’ articles have appeared in various journals and anthologies and he has got the honour of presenting his critical papers in two international conferences besides many national seminars. He is associated with several literary forums and he was awarded Teacher Study Grants from Indo- American Centre for International Studies, Hyderabad twice. He is also engaged in supervising two research works on Arun Joshi and Saul Bellow.