- Title
- The Elephant in the Writing Room: Sympathy and Weakness in Hemingway s "Masculine Text," The Garden of Eden
- Author/Creator
- Ryan Hediger
- Publication Details
- Hemingway Review, Vol.31(1), pp.79-95
- Annotation
- Focuses on the function of writing, language, and sympathy through a close analysis of the elephant tale within the larger marriage narrative. Hediger argues that writing is unable to capture the world s complexity because language, like its users, is incomplete, fallible, and mortal. Concludes that in the novel the desire to write and to know another intimately ends in trauma and death.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132044603691
Journal article
The Elephant in the Writing Room: Sympathy and Weakness in Hemingway s "Masculine Text," The Garden of Eden
Hemingway Review, Vol.31(1), pp.79-95
10/01/2011
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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