- Title
- The Rhetoric and Ethics of Lyric Narrative: Hemingway s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- Author/Creator
- James Phelan
- Publication Details
- Frame, Vol.17, pp.5-21
- Annotation
- Rhetorical approach focusing on the story as a lyric narrative that invites the audience to respond to and engage with its ethical dimensions. Revisits the much-debated controversy about the dialogue between the two waiters, arguing that resolution of the issue lies in examining the second half of the story. Supports Scribner s 1965 textual emendation that has the older waiter introducing the concept of nada into the story. Concludes that the rhetorical dynamics of the lyric narrative hybrid conveys the double-edged communication that everything is nada but we can and should live with that knowledge in a way that keeps despair at bay. Significantly revised version published as Interlacings of Narrative and Lyric: Ernest Hemingway s A Clean Well-Lighted Place and Sandra Cisneros s Woman Hollering Creek in Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative, 151-77. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132089203691
Journal article
The Rhetoric and Ethics of Lyric Narrative: Hemingway s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Frame, Vol.17, pp.5-21
2004
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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