'Horn Knowledge': Knowingness in Hemingway and Kipling

Journal article

Alicia Rix

Symbiosis, Vol.26(2), pp.187-209

2022

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Title: 'Horn Knowledge': Knowingness in Hemingway and Kipling
Author/Creator: Alicia Rix
Publication Details: Symbiosis, Vol.26(2), pp.187-209
Annotation: Comparison of Hemingway's treatise on the bullfight in Death in the Afternoon with Kipling's 1924 story, "The Bull That Thought," investigating how each author employs the concept of authorial knowingness to the bullring. Rix opens with a broader comparison of their mutual use of the narrator as framing device, thematic preoccupation with acquired learning, and reliance on the "iceberg" principle before moving into a more detailed discussion of their divergent interpretations of knowingness. Rix concludes that while Kipling was fascinated by the possibilities of the thinking bull, Hemingway found creative opportunities in the un-knowing bull. Aligning the writer's knowingness with the matador's expertise, Hemingway's matador can invent a fighting bull before the audience's eyes, paralleling the role of the writer in shaping and creating narratives.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015212019103691