Title
Literary Style and Japanese Aesthetics: Hemingway’s Debt to Pound as Reflected in his Poetic Style
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
On the influence of Japanese haiku aesthetics on Hemingway’s developing poetic style of the 1920s. Manabe argues that through Pound’s mentorship, Hemingway crafted his theory of omission based on the Japanese principles of MA and KUU in which meaning is created through empty space. Discusses “Along with Youth,” “To Good Guys Dead,” “Schwarzwald,” and other poems.
Published in
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism: Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy
Date
2016
Pages
121-144
COinS
Citation
Manabe, Akiko. “Literary Style and Japanese Aesthetics: Hemingway’s Debt to Pound as Reflected in his Poetic Style.” In Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism: Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy, edited by Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez and Akiko Manabe, 121-44. New York: Peter Lang, 2016.