Artistic Vision of Ernest Hemingway : A Study of His Major Fictional Works/Alka Bakshi. New Delhi, Dominant Pub., 2008, xii, 310 p., figs., ISBN 81-7888-548-4.

    Contents: Preface. List of abbreviated titles. 1. Hemingway's Artistic vision: an introduction. 2. Artistry in The Short Stories. 3. Wounded expatriate in Post-War Europe. 4. Farewell to Heroic and Chivalric ideals. 5. The turning point. 6. No man is an island. 7. Hemingway's Ancient Mariner: Grace under pressure. 8. Hemingway's Artistic Vision: A synoptic View. Bibliography. Index. 

    "The book offers a critical evaluation of Artistic Vision of Ernest Hemingway, a Nobel Laureate and prominent literary luminary of modern American fiction. It traces the evolution of his moral and social vision from early nihilism of the twenties to an affirmative, humanistic vision expressed in his later fiction reflected through the substructure of symbolic meanings by tracing thematic structures and the changing visage of Hemingway hero in his short stories and major fictional work.

    Its perceptive analysis and critical reassessment of Hemingway's works should profitably engage the attention of the Hemingway scholar, as much as its wealth of information about a legendary author, popular as a sportsman and an aficionado, presented in a lucid and crisp language, should interest the lay reader." (jacket)  

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