Title
Care and Creation: The Anglo-American Modernists
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Focuses on the destabilizing influence of violence on language; situating Hemingway within the postwar modernist tradition by emphasizing his characters’ failures to successfully procreate or create. Privileges a reading of A Farewell to Arms, focusing on the dichotomies inherent in the relationships between humans, their equipment (e.g. tools and weapons) and the natural world, and how language is used to dissolve categorical distinctions and transmogrify one into its opposite.
Published in
The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. From the Civil War Through World War II
Date
2002
Pages
69-106
COinS
Citation
Dawes, James. “Care and Creation: The Anglo-American Modernists.” In The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. From the Civil War Through World War II, 69-106. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.