"He Had Never Written a Word of That": Regret and Counterfactuals in Hemingway s "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

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Jennifer Riddle Harding

Hemingway Review, Vol.30(2), pp.21-35

04/01/2011

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Title: "He Had Never Written a Word of That": Regret and Counterfactuals in Hemingway s "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
Author/Creator: Jennifer Riddle Harding
Publication Details: Hemingway Review, Vol.30(2), pp.21-35
Annotation: Examines the use of embedded counterfactuals within the short story, arguing that these might-have-been scenarios provide coherence to a seemingly fragmented narrative. The counterfactuals convey Helen s situational regret and Harry s squandered writing potential. Harding reads the false ending as a counterfactual meant to elicit a similar sense of disappointment in the reader. Points out that Hemingway s excess of counterfactual material smugly celebrates his own quite fulfilled writing potential. Slightly revised version published as Complex Regrets: Counterfactuals in Ernest Hemingway s The Snows of Kilimanjaro in Similes, Puns, and Counterfactuals in Literary Narrative (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics Series), 128-39. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015132195603691