Title
The Context of Hemingway’s Personal Art and the Caribbean Subject
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Argues that Hemingway’s appropriation of Homer’s Odyssey in Islands in the Stream is one of resemblance rather than outright parallel, unlike the borrowings of his literary contemporaries. DeFalco provides a detailed analysis of Homeric influences on the posthumous novel to demonstrate how Hemingway intentionally limited similarities to keep the classical subtext from overwhelming the surface narrative.
Published in
Date
2013
Pages
254-260
COinS
Citation
Grimes, Larry and Bickford Sylvester, eds. Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2013.