Title
From "Sepi Jingan" to "The Mother of a Queen": Hemingway’s Three Epistemologic Formulas for Short Fiction
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Contends that Hemingway’s gender-confused upbringing led him to create three habitual epistemological formulas: textual perplexity (confusing circumstances), lexical riddle (word ambiguity), and extratextual reversal (stereotype inversion). Gives brief references to numerous stories illustrating the three principles, with an extended analysis of “The Mother of a Queen” exemplifying all three.
Date
1990
Pages
156-171
COinS
Citation
Benson, Jackson J., ed. New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990.