Flaubertian Aesthetics, Modernist Ethics and Animal Representation in Hemingway s Green Hills of Africa

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Daniel Aurelaino Newman

Style, Vol.47(4), pp.509-524

2013

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Title: Flaubertian Aesthetics, Modernist Ethics and Animal Representation in Hemingway s Green Hills of Africa
Author/Creator: Daniel Aurelaino Newman
Publication Details: Style, Vol.47(4), pp.509-524
Annotation: Draws on narrative ethics in his stylistic analysis of Flaubertian aesthetics in Hemingway s treatment of animals, including finding the mot juste (right word) and achieving authorial impersonality. Newman describes Hemingway s approach as tinged with paternalism, misogyny, racism, and colonialism, thereby explaining much of the critical disapproval regarding the memoir. Argues that Hemingway s representation, though flawed, reveals his ethical attempt to capture just the animal, resulting in a greater consideration of the animals and thus complicating our reading of Hemingway s stance toward them.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015132055103691