Hemingway: Direct and Oblique
By: by Richard K. Peterson.
Series: Studies in American literature,; v. 14
Publisher: Mouton
Published: 1969
Place of publication: The Hague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Literary style; English language -- 20th century -- Style
First sentence: A favorite pastime of literary critics in these critical times is the intellectual equivalent of reading character from a man's handwriting or his appearance: it is the game of interpreting a writer's "meaning" from his style.
Description: Hemingway: Direct and Oblique is a rhetorical analysis of Hemingway's work which attempts to relate his direct expression of ideas, themes, and attitudes to their indirect expression through style, imagery, technique and presentation of characters.  It suggests that the "meaning" of Hemingway's style reflects primarily an attitude toward life, of which the style is the supposed "objective correlative."
It considers an early and a later style in Hemingway's work, differing broadly according to their concern with understatement and indirection in the first and with greater expansiveness and directness of statement in the second.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
pagenum: 7; label: I.
title: The "Meaning" of Style
pagenum: 11; label: II.
title: Cool, Clean, Well-Lighted Order
pagenum: 22; label: III.
title: "Discipline"
pagenum: 56; label: IV.
title: Expansiveness and Exaggeration
pagenum: 111; label: V.
title: Phonies and Heroes
pagenum: 171; label: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 217; label: Index
pagenum: 224