Title
"Getting Good at Doing Nothing": Faulkner, Hemingway, and the Fiction of Gesture
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Despite stylistic differences, Kartiganer identities each author’s thematic preoccupation with the power of the empty gesture. Compares the clean, straightforward gesture employed by Hemingway in “In Another Country,” In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” to the grand gesture seen in Faulkner’s works such as Light in August (1932) and The Sound and the Fury (1929).
Published in
Faulkner and His Contemporaries
Date
2004
Pages
54-73
COinS
Citation
Kartiganer, Donald M. “‘Getting Good at Doing Nothing’: Faulkner, Hemingway, and the Fiction of Gesture.” In Faulkner and His Contemporaries, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie, 54-73. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004.