Title
Excision and Textual Waste: The Sun Also Rises
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Discusses Hemingway’s anxieties about verbosity and the reworking of his manuscript. Focuses on the author’s excision during the revision process to create submerged meaning and recounts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critique advocating further deletions, which Hemingway by and large followed.
Published in
The Work of Revision
Date
2013
Pages
113-120
COinS
Citation
Sullivan, Hannah. “Excision and Textual Waste: The Sun Also Rises.” In The Work of Revision, 113-20. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.