Title
The Autonarratives of Ernest Hemingway (and Others)
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Draws on the theories of Kenneth Burke, Julia Kristeva, and others in his examination of the complexity of self-representation found in A Moveable Feast. Toth analyzes Hemingway’s fictional construction of personal experience in “Miss Stein Instructs,” “Ford Madox Ford and the Devil’s Disciple,” “Birth of a New School,” and elsewhere. Concludes that the discreet sketches “emerge as a series of accurate yet always also contingent portraits—of Hemingway as a young author, of other famous writers working in the same place and time, of the specific events that defined the function of writing during the ‘Paris movement.’”
Published in
Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion
Date
2018
Pages
159-182
COinS
Citation
Toth, Josh. “The Autonarratives of Ernest Hemingway (and Others).” In Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion, 159-82. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018.