- Title
- Into the Silence: Hemingway, Woolf, and Beckett in the Wake of War
- Author/Creator
- Barbara Will
- Publication Details
- South Central Review, Vol.35(2), pp.90-102
- Annotation
- Comparison study contextualizing and analyzing the linguistic resistance of post-World War I texts. Will discusses how Hemingway s minimalist style portrays both the lived experience and ethics of war, examining his famous passage on the distortion of abstract words in A Farewell to Arms. Compares Hemingway s reliance on the communicative effects of restricted vocabulary to Woolf s ambivalent presentation of both the capacity and limitations of language in To the Lighthouse (1927). Concludes with a short history of Beckett s gradual resistance to authority through self-administered and carefully executed literary and journalistic silence.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015130952003691
Journal article
Into the Silence: Hemingway, Woolf, and Beckett in the Wake of War
South Central Review, Vol.35(2), pp.90-102
07/01/2018
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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