- Title
- "I Don t Know Buffalo Bill"; or, Hemingway and the Rhetoric of the Western
- Author/Creator
- Dean Rehberger
- Publication Details
- Blowing the Bridge: Essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls, pp.159-184
- Annotation
- Argues that to understand Hemingway s development as an artist, one must understand the cultural concept of the western adventure code, which connects writing to physical activity. First looks at the historical formation of the philosophy advanced by Theodore Roosevelt and Owen Wister. Then shows how Hemingway adapted the code, comparing Big Two-Hearted River to passages of Wister s The Virginian (1902). Lastly, shows how Hemingway altered the ethos by subverting the myth of Custer s Last Stand in For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015136275703691
Book chapter
"I Don t Know Buffalo Bill"; or, Hemingway and the Rhetoric of the Western
Blowing the Bridge: Essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls, pp.159-184
1992
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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