Hemingway s Ethics of Writing: The Ironic Semantics of "Whiteness" in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

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Beatriz Penas Ibáñez

North Dakota Quarterly, Vol.70(4), pp.94-118

2003

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Title: Hemingway s Ethics of Writing: The Ironic Semantics of "Whiteness" in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
Author/Creator: Beatriz Penas Ibáñez
Publication Details: North Dakota Quarterly, Vol.70(4), pp.94-118
Annotation: Looks at Hemingway critique of the arbitrary nature of Western culture s construction of meaning and symbolic alignment of snow with positive qualities such as whiteness, goodness, and truth. Argues that Hemingway s use of contrasting images such as whiteness and darkness remind the reader that rarely is truth achieved either in life or in art. Penas Ib ez concludes that Hemingway is both a modernist realist questioning the values of his time and an aesthete questioning the values of literary convention. His writing is always and simultaneously ethical and aesthetical, and, maybe for that very reason, it cannot and will not be always politically correct.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015131038503691