The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

When the Liminal Becomes the Center: The Case of Ernest Hemingway

Document Type

Article

Citation

Mandel, Miriam B. “When the Liminal Becomes the Center: The Case of Ernest Hemingway.” Liminal Poetics 7 (2008): 41-62.

Annotation

Begins by defining the intermediate or transitional nature of liminality, and then applies that critical lens to Hemingway’s creation of liminal space through language and genre. Mandel discusses Hemingway’s technique of hybridization (blending English with Spanish or Italian) to create simultaneously a sense of the foreign and familiar in several texts, including “Hills Like White Elephants,” “Che Ti Dice la Patria,” “The Capital of the World,” and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Also examines Hemingway’s blending of multiple genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drawing) in a single work such as Death in the Afternoon. Concludes by examining the liminality of three short stories, “Out of Season,” “Cat in the Rain,” and “Hills Like White Elephants.”

Published in

Liminal Poetics

Volume

7

Date

2008

Pages

41-62

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