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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... things a little too hard, and of a boy who grew up in an emotionally repressed environment with a mother and a father who had almost entirely exchanged traditional parental roles. Certainly no community at the turn of the century was ...
... things in American culture that make it impossible, especially for the male, to express emotion and to achieve individuality. When Krebs, in "Soldier's Home," returns to his town, he returns to an atmosphere that he feels is emotionally ...
... things that made all the difference in Hemingway's life. For what is important to know about a writer who felt as deeply as Hemingway did is not so much the things that happened, but his reactions to them. What little we can ever know ...
... things that were not to be moved were burned in the back-yard." One of the "things not to be moved" turns out to be the specimen collection of Dr. Adams, a collection which was one of the few joys of Nick's father (as well as of the ...
... thing to do was to keep your hands off of people" (p. 589). In the order of Nick's memory, this little lecture on sex, with its combination of Victorian primness and misinformation, serves as an ironic introduction to the scene of ...
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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 |