Title
From Dada to Nada: The Dadaist Influence on Hemingway’s Works between 1922 and 1926
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Discusses the Dadaist influence on Hemingway’s early aesthetics, arguing that the movement’s focus on abstract ideas and nihilistic sentiments are reflected in In Our Time, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” and his early poetry. Addresses Hemingway’s parody of Dadaism in “A Divine Gesture.” Concludes that the stories of In Our Time are like Dadaist collages in their juxtaposition of random modern world images to create spontaneity, absurd contradiction, and negation.
Published in
Paris in American Literatures: On Distance as a Literary Resource
Date
2013
Pages
53-67
COinS
Citation
Austad, Jonathan A. “From Dada to Nada: The Dadaist Influence on Hemingway’s Works between 1922 and 1926.” In Paris in American Literatures: On Distance as a Literary Resource, edited by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Vamsi K. Koneru, 53-67. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013.