Title
Character Construction and Agency: Teaching Hemingway’s "A Way You’ll Never Be"
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Structuralist approach empowering students to critically analyze Hemingway’s construction of Nick Adams by drawing on Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan’s characterization of action schema found in Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics (1983). Brings in examples from The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and Across the River and into the Trees to further illustrate Rimmon-Kenan’s approach.
Published in
Date
2016
Pages
60-74
COinS
Citation
Vernon, Alex, ed. Teaching Hemingway and War. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016.