- Title
- Across the Canal and Into Kansas City: Hemingway s Westward Composition of Absolution in Across the River and Into the Trees
- Author/Creator
- Matthew Nickel
- Publication Details
- War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway s Early Life and Writings, pp.324-349
- Annotation
- Analysis of the novel s symbolic landscape, providing a close reading of Cantwell s imaginary road trip from Kansas City to reveal a religious subtext of absolution and rebirth. Nickel connects Cantwell s need for atonement with the personal horrors Hemingway experienced during World War II, contending that Kansas City may serve in Hemingway s memory and imagination as a point of return and renewal.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015136374803691
Book chapter
Across the Canal and Into Kansas City: Hemingway s Westward Composition of Absolution in Across the River and Into the Trees
War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway s Early Life and Writings, pp.324-349
2014
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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