Modernity and progress : Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell
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書誌事項
Modernity and progress : Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell
University of Alabama Press, c2005
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- : [pbk]
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注記
Bibliography: p. [117]-120
Includes index
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: cloth ISBN 9780817314682
内容説明
This book breaks new critical ground by exploring philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures. In the 1920s and '30s, understandings of time, place, and civilization were subjected to a barrage of new conceptions. Ronald Berman probes the work of three American writers who wrestled with one or more of these issues in ways of lasting significance. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Orwell all grappled with fluid notions of time: Hemingway's absolute present, Fitzgerald's obsession with what might be and what might have been, and Orwell's concerns with progress. For these authors, progress is also tied to competing senses of place - for Fitzgerald, the North versus the South; for Hemingway, America versus Europe. At stake for each is an understanding of what constitutes true civilization in a post-war world. Berman discusses Hemingway's deployment of language in tackling the problems of thinking and knowing. Berman follows this notion further in examining the indisputable impact upon Hemingway's prose of Paul Cezanne's painting and the nature of perception. Finally, Berman considers the influence on Orwell of Aristotle and Freud's ideas of civilization, translated by Orwell into the fabric of 1984 and other writings.
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: [pbk] ISBN 9780817354305
内容説明
Explores philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures.
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