Hemingway's Impressions: Learning to Voice the Classics in the Early Journalism

Journal article

Edward Allen

Symbiosis, Vol.26(2), pp.151-171

2022

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Title: Hemingway's Impressions: Learning to Voice the Classics in the Early Journalism
Author/Creator: Edward Allen
Publication Details: Symbiosis, Vol.26(2), pp.151-171
Annotation: Draws on early Hemingway letters and journalism for the Toronto Star to illustrate the apprentice writer's evolving craft, particularly his ability to discriminate and articulate a range of voices. Allen looks to the influence of Hemingway's boyhood reading of Kipling's Stalky & Co. (1899) on his innovative narrative style, including use of dialogue, dialect, and slang. Also explores Hemingway's playful engagement with Blake's "The Tyger" (1794) and Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798) in his satiric abridged classics for the Star. Concludes with a brief summary of Hemingway's journalism on British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the problem of capturing the power of the Anglo-Welshman's voice in "type."
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015212019803691