Title
Beyond the Author: The Storytelling Consciousness and Hemingway's Baby Shoes
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Plumbs the nature of storytelling by way of Hemingway's famous, and possibly apocryphal, six-word story. Reflects on ideas of first-person perspective, personhood, authorial love, and Bakhtin's "aesthetic seeing" to assert that, despite the storytelling intention of Hemingway (or whoever wrote the "baby shoes" ad), the power of successful narratives Is theological.
Published in
Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism
Date
2019
Pages
13-28
COinS
Citation
Lake, Christina Bieber. "Beyond the Author: The Storytelling Consciousness and Hemingway's Baby Shoes." In Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism, 13-28. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2019.