- Title
- Liminality, Repetition, and Trauma in Hemingway s "Big Two-Hearted River" and Other Nick Adams Stories
- Author/Creator
- Peter Messent
- Publication Details
- Mapping Liminalities: Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Text, pp.137-165
- Annotation
- Drawing on trauma theory, Messent examines the effects of trauma on the scarred Nick Adams in several stories, including Big Two-Hearted River, Now I Lay Me, Fathers and Sons, and A Way You ll Never Be. Despite the damage incurred, Messent argues that there is hope for the traumatized Hemingway hero, as evidenced by Cantwell s successful return to the site of his injury in Across the River and into the Trees.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015131906903691
Book chapter
Liminality, Repetition, and Trauma in Hemingway s "Big Two-Hearted River" and Other Nick Adams Stories
Mapping Liminalities: Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Text, pp.137-165
2008
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography