Title
"Pleasant, Isn’t It?": The Language of Hemingway and His World War I Contemporaries
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Compares Hemingway’s early fiction and wartime correspondence to correspondence written by other soldiers of the period, arguing that Hemingway’s stylistic inclination for irony, euphuism, and understatement was shared by his contemporaries, making them kindred spirits. Knodt discusses both their similar attitudes regarding their service while in the war and difficulties with postwar adjustment.
Date
2014
Pages
72-93
COinS
Citation
Paul, Steve, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout, eds. War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2014.