Fat Words, Fat Souls: Momaday, Hemingway, and the Nature of Truth

Journal article

Grant Bain

CEA Critic, Vol.75(3), pp.303-309

2013

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Title: Fat Words, Fat Souls: Momaday, Hemingway, and the Nature of Truth
Author/Creator: Grant Bain
Publication Details: CEA Critic, Vol.75(3), pp.303-309
Annotation: Draws on Julia Kristeva s theories of language to read N. Scott Momoday s House Made of Dawn (1968) as a response to the thematic interplay of truth and language found in The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Bain contends that both works express the written word s potential for conveying and corrupting truth; however, in Hemingway s story language exists largely to hide truth while in Momaday s novel the word exists as truth, and is thus capable of generating truth.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015132179403691