Title
The Modernist Typewriter: Ernest Hemingway
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Addresses the liberating impact of printing technology on the creativity of early modernist poets and writers such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Hemingway. Considers the typewriter's contribution to the development of Hemingway's spare style, summing up his reliance on the machine for writing, corresponding, and reporting.
Published in
The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices
Date
2021
Pages
81-85
COinS
Citation
Lyons, Martyn. "The Modernist Typewriter: Ernest Hemingway." In The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices, 81-85. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.