Ellison's Hemingway

Journal article

David Wyatt

Hemingway Review, Vol.41(1), pp.28-42

10/01/2021

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Title: Ellison's Hemingway
Author/Creator: David Wyatt
Publication Details: Hemingway Review, Vol.41(1), pp.28-42
Annotation: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison, published in 2019, along with the essays in Shadow and Act (1964), reveal Ernest Hemingway to have been a major preoccupation for the author of Invisible Man. While Ellison did acknowledge that Hemingway once served as "the true father-as-artist of so many of us who came to writing during the late thirties," Hemingway's influence on Ellison was, however, neither simple nor direct. Instead, Hemingway allowed Ellison a way to think about "questions of influence": about technique, about producing emotion, and, above all, about how an artist might grapple with America's "great moral theme."
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015131203303691