Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Relationship

Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway met in Key West in 1937, married in 1941, and divorced in 1945. Gellhorn's work exhibits a strong influence from Hemingway's work, including collaboration on her work during their marriage. I will discuss three of her six novels: WMP (1934), Liana (1944), and Point of No Return (1948). The areas of influence that I will rely on in many ways follow the stages Harold Bloom outlines in Anxiety of Influence. Gellhorn's work exposes a stage of influence that Bloom does not describe-which I term collaborative. By looking at Hemingway's influence in Gellhorn's writing the difference between traditional literary influence and collaborative influence can be compared and analyzed, revealing the footprints left in a work by a collaborating author as opposed to simply an influential one.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2003

Author dc:creator

• Salmon, H. L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Parrish, Timothy
• Shillingsburg, Peter
• Vanhoutte, Jacqueline, 1968-

• Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Influence.
• Liana
• WMP
• Martha Gellhorn
• Ernest Hemingway
• influence

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• Public
• Copyright
• Salmon, H. L.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 53126303
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4183/
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