Title
Liminality, Repetition, and Trauma in Hemingway’s "Big Two-Hearted River" and Other Nick Adams Stories
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Drawing on trauma theory, Messent examines the effects of trauma on the scarred Nick Adams in several stories, including “Big Two-Hearted River, “Now I Lay Me,” “Fathers and Sons,” and “A Way You’ll Never Be.” Despite the damage incurred, Messent argues that there is hope for the traumatized Hemingway hero, as evidenced by Cantwell’s successful return to the site of his injury in Across the River and into the Trees.
Published in
Mapping Liminalities: Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Text
Date
2008
Pages
137-165
COinS
Citation
Messent, Peter. “Liminality, Repetition, and Trauma in Hemingway’s ‘Big Two-Hearted River’ and Other Nick Adams Stories.” In Mapping Liminalities: Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Texts, edited by Lucy Kay, et al, 137-65. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.