Title
Ham and Eggs and Hermeneutics: Re-reading Hemingway’s "The Killers"
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Arguing against realist interpretations, Harris reads the story as a modernist rebus made up of encrypted clues hidden in plain sight. Identifies Hemingway’s World War I experience as key to understanding the story’s theme of war trauma, drawing on a 1918 pictographic letter and manuscripts in his examination of the story’s contradictions, wordplay, and repetition.
Published in
Journal of Modern Literature
Volume
40
Issue
2
Date
Winter 2016
Pages
41-59
COinS
Citation
Harris, Oliver. “Ham and Eggs and Hermeneutics: Re-reading Hemingway’s ‘The Killers.’” Journal of Modern Literature 40, no. 2 (Winter 2016): 41-59.