- Title
- The Ma of Hemingway: Interval, Absence, and Japanese Esthetics in In Our Time
- Author/Creator
- Christopher Loots
- Publication Details
- Hemingway Review, Vol.29(2), pp.74-88
- Annotation
- Applies the Japanese esthetic of ma to Hemingway s prose style, specifically analyzing Indian Camp and Big Two-Hearted River. Contrary to Western scholarship, Loots argues that Hemingway s theory of omission should be approached not as a puzzle to be filled in but as gesturing toward the meaningful yet unnamable nothingness of the interval. Loots interprets the woods in In Our Time as a representation of the text s sublime nothingness and urges scholars to address the silences and absences in Hemingway s text as meaningful in themselves.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132340703691
Journal article
The Ma of Hemingway: Interval, Absence, and Japanese Esthetics in In Our Time
Hemingway Review, Vol.29(2), pp.74-88
04/01/2010
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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