Antithetical Icons? Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and the First World War

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Steven Trout

Cather Studies, Vol.7(1), pp.269-287

2007

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Title: Antithetical Icons? Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and the First World War
Author/Creator: Steven Trout
Publication Details: Cather Studies, Vol.7(1), pp.269-287
Annotation: Acknowledging Hemingway s limited relationship with Cather, Trout contends that an examination of In Our Time with The Professor s House (1925) provides a richer understanding of the effects of World War I on American literature of the 1920s. Analyzes how each applies the theory of omission to emphasize the monstrousness of World War I. Calls for a more thorough comparison of the authors beyond these two novels, pointing out that both writers periodically acknowledge the same existential dilemma: how to live in a world without absolute meaning, a world broken in two.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015131956303691