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- Title
The MA of Hemingway: Interval, Absence, and Japanese Esthetics in "In Our Time."
- Authors
Loots, Christopher
- Abstract
Hemingway's self-described "iceberg theory" has influenced decades of scholarship tracing various "things left out" of Hemingway's work. But such scholarship, however locally efficacious, presumes that his textual absences and silences are information-rich fields which beg decoding through bio-historical or other literary analysis. By approaching "In Our Time" through a Japanese esthetic notion of ma, I offer a new way to understand the greater sublimity of Hemingway's work. Silence, interval, and emptiness are not voids resulting from omissions, waiting to be filled with things-recovered, but are themselves the meaning of the work.
- Subjects
IN Our Time (Book : Hemingway); HEMINGWAY, Ernest, 1899-1961; ABSENCE in literature; NARRATIVE inquiry (Research method); JAPANESE aesthetics; CRITICISM
- Publication
Hemingway Review, 2010, Vol 29, Issue 2, p74
- ISSN
0276-3362
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/hem.0.0061