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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... thought was weak. Not until toward the end of his life, as we shall see in The Old Man and the Sea, does Hemingway achieve any kind of resolution to the mixed emotions he had for his parents. The fact that these Nick Adams stories were ...
... thoughts about his father's masculinity as expressed in hunting, but this memory of "soundness" is marred by a recollection of his father's unsoundness on the subject of sex. When Nick uses the word bugger to refer to a squirrel he has ...
... story, makes Nick's conventionally romantic and self-conscious mourning of his lost love even more ludicrous than it is in itself: "Nick lay in the bed with his face in the pillow. 'My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel 11 ♢
Jackson J. Benson. the pillow. 'My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken'" (p. 434). Later still in the Nick Adams chronology, this satiric treatment of self -induced romantic sensibility is carried on ...
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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 |