- Title
- Full Immersion: Modernist Aesthetics and the US Literature of Experience
- Author/Creator
- Jeffrey Lawrence
- Publication Details
- Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño, pp.125-165
- Annotation
- In his analysis of the intersection between US and Latin American literatures, Lawrence situates Hemingway s To Have and Have Not and Porter s Hacienda and other Mexico-based stories within the development of US literature of experience, arguing for the key role such experiential literature played in the formation of modernist literature itself. Discusses Hemingway s lived experience in Cuba, frustration with leftist critics who accused him of distancing himself from Depression era issues, and critique of politicized writing in To Have and Have Not through his portrayal of Harry Morgan s foil, social novelist Richard Gordon, who writes from the comfort of his Key West home. Concludes with a summary of the contemporary debate among New Critics like Robert Penn Warren and Allen Tate on the relationship between the writer s experience and literary production.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015131932303691
Book chapter
Full Immersion: Modernist Aesthetics and the US Literature of Experience
Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño, pp.125-165
2018
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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