Translating modernism
Subtitle: Fitzgerald and Hemingway
By: Ronald Berman.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780817316471; 9780817381554
Subjects: Fitzgerald, F. Scott -- 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation; Hemingway, Ernest, -- 1899-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation; Freud, Sigmund, -- 1856-1939 -- Influence; Dewey, John, -- 1859-1952 -- Influence; Cézanne, Paul, -- 1839-1906 -- Influence; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Literature, Modern -- Psychological aspects; Modernism (Art) -- Influence
Description: In this book the author continues his career long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America's major modernist writers. Here he shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and psychological influences, influences particular to each writer, particular to the time in which they wrote, and which left distinctive marks on their entire oeuvres. Specifically, he addresses the idea of "translating" or "translation", for Fitzgerald the translation of ideas from Freud, Dewey, and James, among others; and for Hemingway the translation of visual modernism and composition, via Cezanne. Though each writer had distinct interests and different intellectual problems to wrestle with, as is demonstrated in this work, both had to wrestle with transmuting some outside influence and making it their own.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Landscapes and ideas; title: Fitzgerald: American dreams; title: Fitzgerald: American realities; title: Fitzgerald's autobiographies; title: Hemingway: thinking about Cezanne; title: Hemingway's Michigan landscapes.