Ernest Hemingway's Awareness of Other Writers

This thesis demonstrates Ernest Hemingway's awareness of other writers, both past and contemporary to him. It collates Hemingway's references to other writers as culled from a variety of biographical and critical sources. It serves as a reference work for the study of Hemingway's statements on otherwriters, while seeking to establish them in a properly objective context. This thesis does not attempt to present Hemingway's credentials as a masterful critic. Its aim is more toward developing an understanding of Hemingway's opinions and perceptions in order to further a scholarly study of his own canon. As the body of Hemingway criticism becomes increasingly more textual and less biographical, the need to examine Hemingway's literary statements becomes correspondingly more crucial.Master of Arts (MA

Filming the lost generation : F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and the art of cinematic adaptation /

Adviser: Will Brantley.Lost Generation authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway incorporate autobiography into their writing. Through cinematic adaptations of the authors' fiction, viewers can see how filmmakers and actors integrate their own experiences into the authors' self-portrayals. This phenomenon creates a cycle of literary celebrity---a ouroboros---in which the authors' lives and cultural reputations become intertwined with that of those who adapt their works.In order to determine how film encourages the cycle of literary celebrity over time, a comprehensive list of major motion pictures inspired by Fitzgerald and Hemingway is examined. The goal is to determine what circumstances produce the most cohesive film adaptations of fiction by authors with well-known public personas. A six-question approach is used to signify an adaptation in which the artistic visions of the original author and film production team converge in a manner that seems thematically consistent and contextually plausible.This approach advocates incorporation of authorial autobiography and temporally relevant historical, political, psychological, and socio-cultural details as the primary source for filmable content outside the original text. Consideration is given to the effectiveness of three adaptation styles: faithful conversion, updated interpretation, and thematic revision. Two new film treatments are provided to suggest how cohesive cinematic adaptations might be developed for future markets.Ph.D

More than a Family Resemblance? Agnes Crane's "A Victorious Defeat" and Stephen Crane's The Third Violet1

Analyzes Stephen Crane's The Third Violet in the context of his sister Agnes Crane's vacation story "A Victorious Retreat.

The Feminine Principle in Hemingway

I suggest that Hemingway's prose works externalize his fear of the feminine principle in the world and that Hemingway's heroes, projections of the author, himself, are in flight away from the feminine principle originating in the Dark Mother. First, I examine the hero's attempts to escape the biological cycle of birth-procreation-death and to seek refuge on his own terms in an Eden-like Moment with a woman. But the Edenic Moment is subject to Time, Flesh, and a sexually-based Invidia, and as an actual experience is transitory. Second, I examine the Hemingway man's escape into self-fulfillment through work as an effort to maintain his masculine individuality. But progressively throughout the works, the Hemingway man loses his ability -to cope with the forces which disrupt his work, and the nature of the forces opposing man's successful escape into work is seen as feminine •. And finally, I relate the elemental forces bent on the destruction of the Hemingway man's autonomy and on the bending of him to their will to Woman as Dark Mother. Woman is associated with desire, with mutability, and - ultimately with death and decay in the cyclical renewal of nature. Nothing is permanent in such a world. In the increasing association of the artist-figure with mutability, one can conjecture that even art, for Hemingway, came increasingly under the all-pervading influence of the Great Mother, and perhaps provides an insight into his final despair.Master of Arts (MA

The Theme of Maturation in the Early Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

The theme of maturation is a central one in the early work of both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. This thesis examines this theme in Hemingway's first two novels, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms as well as selected early stories, particularly those concerning Nick Adams. Similarly, Fitzgerald's first two novels are examined, This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned with some attention given to some selected short stories. The thesis attempts to offer some reasons for the recurrence of this theme in the works; to compare Hemingway's and Fitzgerald's distinctive treatment of the theme, and finally to propose some conclusions concerning the nature of the early fiction of both authors with respect to the theme of the hero's maturation.Master of Arts (MA

The old man and Slovenia: Hemingway studies in the slovenian cultural context

The name of Ernest Hemingway was first mentioned in Slovenian literary criticism by the writer and critic Tone Seliškar in 1933. Soon afterwards, Griša Koritnik, the foremost translator of English and American literatures in the period between the two wars, in his article »The Great War in the English Novel« described the protagonist of the novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) somewhat enigmatically as »the symbol of the old generation«. In a short survey of contemporary American literature, which Anton Debeljak in 1939 freely adapted from the article previously published by J. Wood Krutch in The Times,  Hemingway was grouped together with the Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck and novelist Erskine Caldwell, which is to say with the giants of the then mainstream American fiction. However, it is curious that a Slovenian reader should already from this article have learned how Hemingway, the author of »powerful stories«, had recently become monotonous, which was before he even had a fair chance to get acquainted with any of his works translated into Slovenian

Ernest Hemingway\u27s Attitude Toward Women as Revealed in Selected Novels

The problem is to show, in selected novels, that Hemingway\u27s negative attitude toward women is reflected in the creation of female characters who are selfish, corrupt, unchaste, destructive, fickle, irreligious, amoral, possessive, jealous, incontinent, and/or submissive. For the purpose of this study, the writer will use three novels by Ernest Hemingway. There will be no attempt to treat any other of Hemingway\u27s characters or theories other than those dealing with a negative attitude toward women, nor will any work other than the following be considered: The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms For Whom the Bell Toll

The short stories of Ernest Hemingway : an examination into the relationship between his fictional world and the diction used in creating it

It will be the purpose of this study to begin such a consideration by treating but one aspect of Hemingway’s art, that of the relationship between Hemingway’s view of the world, as seen in his short stories, and the diction he uses to create this fictional world. In effect, the problem resolves itself around these three basic questions: (1) What is the world like that Hemingway creates in his short stories?; (2) What is the diction like that he uses to portray this world?; and finally and most importantly, (3) How well suited is the diction for revealing Hemingway’s fictional world? I.e., is there an organic relationship between this basic element of style and vision