- Title
- Silence: Hemingway's Periods
- Author/Creator
- Lee Clark Mitchell
- Publication Details
- Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature
- Annotation
- On the psychological power and interpretive possibilities of punctuation. Uses "Chapter III" of In Our Time, "Hills Like White Elephants," "On the Quai at Smyrna," and other works to illustrate how Hemingway's use of periods leads to the "precipitousness of his laconic sentences" and the "heightened anxiety" of his style. Concludes with a contemporary example of Hemingway's influence, in the opening passages of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road (2006).
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015131233703691
Book chapter
Silence: Hemingway's Periods
Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature
2020
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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