Hemingway: The Writer's Art of Self-DefenseU of Minnesota Press - 202 páginas Hemingway was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In a close critical analysis of five of Ernest Hemingway's novels and a number of his most important short stories, Professor Benson provides a fascinating new view of his work. The novels discussed are The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and into the Trees,and the Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway's art of self-defense, which Professor Benson refers to in his subtitle, was, as he demonstrates in his perceptive criticism, the writer's use of style and technique to attack the sentimentalities which were Hemingway's own weakness. Emotion was central to the task which Hemingway defined for himself, Professor Benson explains, and a critical appraisal of his work must, therefore, focus particularly on the ways in which he dealt with and expressed emotion. |
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... Nick, the young, semiautobiographical protagonist of the Hemingway short stories ("Indian Camp," "Ten Indians," "Fathers and Sons"), and Nick's initiation to the masculine role and male activities — hunting, fishing, drinking, and the ...
... Nick Adams stories were written, for the most part, a good many years after the events described in them had transpired is testimony to the enduring strength of the emotions contained in them. In these stories, Nick's mother is a woman ...
... Nick's father (as well as of the real Dr. Hemingway). In rather direct symbolic terms, Nick's recollection focuses on the bursting jars, the flaming alcohol, and the "snakes burning in the fire in the back-yard" (p. 463). The ...
... Nick are ready to go hunting. Although his mother wants him to come into the house to her, Nick tells his father, "I want to go with you" (p. 201). Dr. Adams takes the book that Nick has been reading and, so that Nick need not go back ...
... Nick Adams stories, when Nick's father has "had" it, he picks up his gun and leaves. Hunting becomes for Ernest-Nick the male direction, and Nick's appeal at the end of "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" to go with his father is a ...
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ROLES AND THE MASCULINE WRITER | 28 |
DARK LAUGHTER | 47 |
A STRUCTURE FOR EMOTIONAL CONTROL | 70 |
LEARNING TO PLAY THE GAME WELL | 99 |
CONTROL AND LOSS OF CONTROL THROUGH IRONY | 113 |
SUFFERING AND LOSS WITHOUT TEARS | 129 |
THE ROAD FROM SELF | 150 |
THE MASK OF HUMBLE PERFECTION | 169 |
LET BE BE FINALE OF SEEM | 186 |