Hemingway: Direct and Oblique
Series: Studies in American literature, v.14
Publisher: Mouton
Published: 1969
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Hemingway, Ernest, -- 1899-1961; 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: pagenum: 7
class: section
label: Introduction; pagenum: 11
title: The "Meaning" of Style
class: part
label: I.; pagenum: 22
title: Cool, Clean, Well-Lighted Order
class: part
label: II.; pagenum: 56
title: "Discipline"
class: part
label: III.; pagenum: 111
label: IV.
class: part
title: Expansiveness and Exaggeration; pagenum: 171
title: Phonies and Heroes
class: part
label: V.; pagenum: 217
class: part
label: Selected Bibliography; pagenum: 224
class: part
label: Index