Title
From Pound’s to Hemingway’s Haiku-Like Textuality: Japanese Aesthetics in Chapter 20 of Death in the Afternoon
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
On the influence of Japanese aesthetics on Western imagism and modernism, as exemplified in Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” and Hemingway’s chapter twenty of Death in the Afternoon. Penas-Ibáñez compares Hemingway’s use of omission to the minimalist economy of the haiku form in her analysis of Hemingway’s thematic treatment of loss, change, impermanence, and authorial anxiety, concluding that both the haiku writer and Hemingway share the desire to create truth and emotion through suggestion.
Published in
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism: Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy
Date
2016
Pages
195-208
COinS
Citation
Penas-Ibáñez, Beatriz. “From Pound’s to Hemingway’s Haiku-Like Textuality: Japanese Aesthetics in Chapter 20 of Death in the Afternoon.” In Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism: Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy, edited by Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez and Akiko Manabe, 195-208. New York: Peter Lang, 2016.