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in a recently submitted work, I referenced Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls word for word. is this a copyright violation or will they still be able to publish it?

all I did was mention the name. the class was studying the book
 

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That's a good question right now.
Just to be clear, you said something like "The class was reading For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway"?

Nah. That's not a copyright violation. Not even close.
 

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They are not even Hemmingway's words; they belong to John Donne, and are long out of copyright.

You went and made a literary allusion, is what you did.
 
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