- Title
- Jig on the Border: The World and Time of the Simile
- Author/Creator
- William Douglas MastinKevin Andrew Spicer
- Publication Details
- Hemingway Review, Vol.44(1), pp.12-45
- Annotation
- Hemingway's story "Hills Like White Elephants" is filled with twosomes. Indeed, the title itself presents a pair; "Hills' like "White Elephants." It is a natural temptation, when confronted with such couplings, to choose one or the other: either the Hills or the White Elephants. This temptation passes something crucial by, through—namely, the "like." This paper argues—through a healthy dose of psychoanalysis—that in this story Hemingway is attempting to heed these in-between third terms, of which the simile is one, to tarry with them, and to refrain from choosing one of the pair over the other.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015417572103691
Journal article
Jig on the Border: The World and Time of the Simile
Hemingway Review, Vol.44(1), pp.12-45
2024
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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