- Title
- Use Sparingly
- Author/Creator
- Ben Blatt
- Publication Details
- Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing, pp.9-29
- Annotation
- Addresses the question of whether the use of fewer adverbs makes for better writing within the literary canon. Blatt analyzes Hemingway s words in ten novels ranging from The Torrents of Spring to True at First Light to prove mathematically the author s aversion to adverbs ending in ly. Concludes that Hemingway s classics, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, contain fewer adverbs while his critically panned True at First Light uses the most.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015131993403691
Book chapter
Use Sparingly
Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing, pp.9-29
2017
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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