- Title
- All Aboard: Reading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway
- Author/Creator
- Ellen Lansky
- Publication Details
- English Language Notes, Vol.60(1), pp.139-149
- Annotation
- As a result of personal experience in teaching "Hills Like White Elephants," Lansky posits that the story is one less about abortion and more about alcohol in the lives and behaviors of the two characters. Revisits her schoolgirl experiences with Hemingway, followed by her awakening amidst feminist readings of his fiction in the 1980s, the attraction of drinking-oriented literature, and her own experience with alcoholism. Suggests that in the blurring boundary between fiction and life, Hemingway offered a kind of invitation to his readers to become "drinking buddies," prompting a century of tourism, and, for the author, a wrestling with the consequences—for Hemingway and for her.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015212019203691
Journal article
All Aboard: Reading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway
English Language Notes, Vol.60(1), pp.139-149
2022
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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