Translating modernism: Fitzgerald and Hemingway
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Main Author: Berman, Ronald (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press ©2009
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [77]-96) and index
Introduction: Landscapes and ideas -- Fitzgerald: American dreams -- Fitzgerald: American realities -- Fitzgerald's autobiographies -- Hemingway: thinking about Cézanne -- Hemingway's Michigan landscapes
In this book the author continues his career long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America's major modernist writers. Here he shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and psychological influences, influences particular to each writer, particular to the time in which they wrote, and which left distinctive marks on their entire oeuvres. Specifically, he addresses the idea of "translating" or "translation", for Fitzgerald the translation of ideas from Freud, Dewey, and James, among others; and for Hemingway the translation of visual modernism and composition, via Cezanne. Though each writer had distinct interests and different intellectual problems to wrestle with, as is demonstrated in this work, both had to wrestle with transmuting some outside influence and making it their own
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (99 pages)
ISBN:0817381554
9780817381554

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