Title
Temporal Form and Wartime: Modernism After World War I
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Freudian reading examining Hemingway’s exploration of the theme of the inevitability of death in The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Argues that Hemingway is “preoccupied with the attraction of narratives not merely to deaths but to deaths that are redundant,” with even the distinction between cowardly and courageous deaths blurred.
Published in
Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism
Date
1994
Pages
84-127
COinS
Citation
Limon, John. “Temporal Form and Wartime: Modernism After World War I.” In Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism, 84-127. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.