"There's No One Thing That's True": Hemingway Criticism and the Environmental Humanities

Book chapter

Lisa Tyler

The New Hemingway Studies, pp.189-203

2020

Metrics

59 Record Views

Title: "There's No One Thing That's True": Hemingway Criticism and the Environmental Humanities
Author/Creator: Lisa Tyler
Publication Details: The New Hemingway Studies, pp.189-203
Annotation: Assesses Hemingway's status among environmentalists since the term "ecocriticism," coined in 1978, began redirecting scholarly thinking, especially about literary modernism, nature and culture. Recognizes the influence of essays in the Hemingway and the Natural World conference and collection and of Susan F. Beegel's article "Eye and Heart: Hemingway's Education as a Naturalist." The territory is marked by critical arguments about Hemingway's compassion, or seeming lack of it, for animals and the elegiac voice he often brings to writings of landscape and nature. Essay surveys recent strands of criticism approaching Hemingway in terms of animality, pastoralism, and eco-feminism, though notes a lack, as of yet, in criticism through the lens of currently vital ideas such as climatology. Suggests opportunities for Hemingway studies through emerging disciplines such as ecomasculinities, biosemiotics, material ecocriticism, and eco-cosmopolitanism. Warns against missing the complexities presented by a duality often identified by Hemingway's sporting affairs and his "proto-ecologist" concerns.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015136297303691