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Bloom, Harold, ed.  Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.  New York:
         Chelsea House, 1987. 

        Part of the Modern Critical Interpretations series, this collection includes 10 critical essays and a Hemingway chronology.

Donaldson, Scott, ed.  New Essays on a Farewell to Arms. (Cambridge
        University Press, 1990)

Gibson, Walker.  Tough, Sweet, and Stuffy: An Essay on Modern American
        Prose Styles. (Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1966):
        28-42.

        Monteiro's gloss: "Walker Gibson . . . defended Frederic Henry's rhetoric.  By comparing the first paragraph of A Farewell to Arms with a paragraph from William Dean Howells' nineteenth-century novel A Modern Instance, he defined what makes Hemingway's style both innovative and effective."

Hemingway Review (Fall 1989) was dedicated to A Farewell to Arms.

Lewis, Robert W.  A Farewell to Arms: The War of the Words (New York:
          Twayne, 1992).

        George Monteiro's gloss: Pegged on the passage in the novel about the hollowness of abstract words, Lewis' "introductory interpretation of Hemingway's novel" is "a multi-faceted study that reads the novel in terms of characters, mode of presentation (including voice and point of view), and themes of games, craziness, and appearance vs. essence . . . ."

Monteiro, George, ed.  Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell
          to Arms.  New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1994. 

        Part of the series Critical Essays on American Literature edited by James Nagel, this book includes two accounts on writing the novel, two writings on censorship, five reviews, and eight critical essays.  [Three of these pieces also appeared in Bloom.]  Following are links to summaries of these essays.  (Click on Monteiro's name for a summary of his introduction to this book.)

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