Ernest Hemingway : thought in action / Mark Cirino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cirino, Mark, 1971-

Series:

Studies in American thought and culture.

Studies in American thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Criticism and interpretation.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Consciousness in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ernest Hemingway s groundbreaking prose style and examination of timeless themes made him one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. Yet in "Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action," Mark Cirino observes, Literary criticism has accused Hemingway of many things but thinking too deeply is not one of them. Although much has been written about the author s love of action hunting, fishing, drinking, bullfighting, boxing, travel, and the moveable feast Cirino looks at Hemingway s focus on the modern mind, paralleling the interest in consciousness of such predecessors and contemporaries as Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Henry James. Hemingway, Cirino demonstrates, probes the ways his character s minds respond when placed in urgent situations or when damaged by past traumas. In Cirino s analysis of Hemingway s work through this lens including such celebrated classics as "A Farewell to Arms," "The Old Man and the Sea," and Big Two-Hearted River and less-appreciated works including "Islands in the Stream" and Because I Think Deeper an entirely different Hemingway hero emerges: intelligent, introspective, and ruminative. "

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of Hemingway Texts

Introduction: Ernest Hemingway and the Life of the Mind

1. The Solitary Consciousness I: Metacognition and Mental Control in "Big Two-Hearted River"

2. The Solitary Consciousness II: Metacognition and Mental Control in The Old Man and the Sea

3. Memory in A Farewell to Arms: Architecture, Dimensions, and Persistence

4. "The Stream with No Visible Flow": Islands in the Stream and the Thought-Action Dichotomy

5. Beating Mr. Turgenev: "The Execution of Tropmann" and Hemingway's Aesthetic of Witness

6. That Supreme Moment of Complete Knowledge: Hemingway's Theory of the Vision of the Dying

7. Reading Through Hemingway's Void: The Death of Consciousness as Conversion or Annihilation

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-65740-6

0-299-28653-3

OCLC:

813529034