- Title
- Love, Death, and War: Metaphorical Interaction in Hemingway s "Hills Like White Elephants"
- Author/Creator
- Donald E. HardyHeather K. Hardy
- Publication Details
- Language and Literature, Vol.15, pp.1-56
- Annotation
- Draws on discourse analysis, speech act theory, and sociolinguistics for a close and comprehensive examination of the couple s conversation, including a line-by-line interpretation of metaphors. Contends that the man is incapable of complex thought and death-focused while the woman is linguistically sophisticated and life-focused. Suggests that the man and woman ascribe to differing metaphors for life, and cites evidence that the woman wins the war over death and does not have the abortion.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015131593703691
Journal article
Love, Death, and War: Metaphorical Interaction in Hemingway s "Hills Like White Elephants"
Language and Literature, Vol.15, pp.1-56
1990
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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