Title
That Supreme Moment of Complete Knowledge: Hemingway’s Theory of the Vision of the Dying
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Examines the reoccurring phenomenon of life review, the concept of life flashing before one’s eyes just prior to death, in several Hemingway texts including chapters XIV and XV of In Our Time, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Islands in the Stream, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Cirino focuses on the protagonists’ differing states of consciousness, concluding that their autobiographical perceptions at death reveal the way they viewed their lives.
Date
2014
Pages
242-259
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.