Ernest Hemingway

by Cirino, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780299286545
• ISBN10: 0299286541
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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 conscioucness of such predecessors and contemporaries as Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Henry James. Hemmingway, 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-examining 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 Streamand "Because I Think Deeper"-an entirely different Hemingway hero emerges: intelligent, introspective, and ruminative.

Author Biography

Mark Cirino is assistant professor of English at the University of Evansville. He is the co-editor of Ernest Hemingway: Geography of Memory and the general editor of Kent State University Press's "Reading Hemingway" series. He is also the author of two novels, Name the Baby and Arizona Blues.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations of Hemingway Texts	p. xi
Introduction: Ernest Hemingway and the Life of the Mind	p. 3
The Solitary Consciousness I: Metacognition and Mental Control in "Big Two-Hearted River"	p. 20
The Solitary Consciousness II: Metacognition and Mental Control in The Old Man and the Sea	p. 37
Memory in A Farewell to Arms: Architecture, Dimensions, and Persistence	p. 56
"The Stream with No Visible How": Islands in the Stream and the Thought-Action Dichotomy	p. 78
Beating Mr. Turgenev: "The Execution of Tropmann" and Hemingway's Aesthetic of Witness	p. 101
That Supreme Moment of Complete Knowledge: Hemingway's Theory of the Vision of the Dying	p. 116
Reading Through Hemingway's Void: The Death of Consciousness as Conversion or Annihilation	p. 131
Notes	p. 149
Works Cited	p. 165
Index	p. 175
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