Abstract Ernest Hemingway's prose has left a lasting impression on the way American literature is written and taught. ... For nearly a century, critics and readers alike have praised Ernest Hemingway for his powerful and sparse prose. ... (Marital) This too is a suggestion of the mastery of the English language demonstrated in the works of Ernest Hemingway: the ability to say things without actually stating them, the power of the unspoken word. ... (Marital) Though the specifics of his unique and revolutionary style are well known to students of Ernest Hemingway, it is worth our time to ...

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The short story, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and the novella, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, both contain covert alternate meanings that emanate from the authors' literary style preferences. ... Ernest Hemingway uses a literary style called the "Iceberg Theory" to convey only the information that he feels is pertinent, and leaves the rest to the reader to determine. ... Kafka's and Hemingway's works are similar in that they both stray from the grander narrative. ... Both Kafka and Hemingway exhibit, through their styles of...

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On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. ... Clarence Hemingway. ... During his stay in Europe through the 1920's, Ernest was influenced by eccentric writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound their literary compression. ... HEMINGWAY HERO "For Ernest Hemingway, the secondary world which he constructed in his many stories and novels served as a mirror to reflect his beliefs about the world in which he lived- (Relations to Fact Through Fiction 1). ... REFLECTIONS OF HEMINGWAY'S LIFE Hemingway did not only create characters but created hims...

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For Ernest Hemingway, writing was a ritual which confronted human inadequacy. ... In fact, Hemingway often drew upon human and animal likenesses. ... Hemingway had a deep appreciation for nature. ... Hemingway loved fishing more than anything in the world. ... Hemingway has said before that no person experiences life like the bullfighter (Hemingway, 1966). ...

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Among the many Writers/Novelists of this time period some of the most influential writers include: James Joyce, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, Gustave Flaubert and, Frantz Kafka; All of whom are not only prime examples in rejecting the romantic perspective in their writing, but are also masters in exhibiting freedom in altering the form, and substance throughout their writing to adequately exemplify motifs of modernism. While Joyce, Crane, James, Hemingway, Flaubert, and Kafka all master the incorporation of modernist ideals in their writing, each writer individually has a uniq...

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"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a story by Ernest Hemingway about men in successive stages in the philosophy of existentialism, revealing ultimately how the philosophy will fail them. ... The soldier in the story is an example of the first stage of existentialism in Hemingway's denunciation of the philosophy. ... However, as Hemingway's story suggests, it is hard to find a personal truth to believe in strongly. ... We recognize this by Hemingway's use of characterization. Hemingway never identifies a particular part to the extended dialogue, because ultimately it is one strea...

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Prevalent among many of Ernest Hemingway's novels is the concept popularly known as the "Hemingway hero", an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a "man's man". ... Brett, as a dynamic and self-controlled woman, and her four love interests help demonstrate Hemingway's standard definition of a man and/or masculinity. Each man Brett has a relationship with in the novel possesses distinct qualities that enable Hemingway to explore what it is to truly be a man. The Hemingway man thus presented is a man of action, of self-discipline and self-reliance, and o...

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Word Count: 1152 Ernest Hemingway"S "Cat In The Rain" In today's society, people have the assumptions that we have evolved far beyond past cultural notions and marital stereotypes. ... The American wife in Ernest Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain," although controlled by her husband, George, is an obvious victim of marital neglect. ...

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The Sagas of Icelanders have also been known, rather imprecisely, as Icelandic Family Sagas. They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). There are some forty in total (this being, for instance, the number translated in The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, 1997). Collectively, they cover events running from the mid ninth century to the mid eleventh and located in all inhabited parts of Iceland (and some uninhabited), though saga-writing flourished above all in the West and North. I...

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Introduction Raymond Carver is said to be one of the most influential American short-story writer and poet in the second half of 20th century, a major force in the revival of the short story in the 1980s (Kennedy, X. J. and Gioia, Dana, 2005). In this essay, we aim to analyze the main characteristic...

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