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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810833003321

Autore

Cirino Mark <1971->

Titolo

Ernest Hemingway [[electronic resource] ] : thought in action / / Mark Cirino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-65740-6

0-299-28653-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Studies in American thought and culture

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

Consciousness in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations of Hemingway Texts -- Introduction: Ernest Hemingway and the Life of the Mind -- 1. The Solitary Consciousness I: Metacognition and Mental Control in "Big Two-Hearted River" -- 2. The Solitary Consciousness II: Metacognition and Mental Control in The Old Man and the Sea -- 3. Memory in A Farewell to Arms: Architecture, Dimensions, and Persistence -- 4. "The Stream with No Visible Flow": Islands in the Stream and the Thought-Action Dichotomy -- 5. Beating Mr. Turgenev: "The Execution of Tropmann" and Hemingway's Aesthetic of Witness -- 6. That Supreme Moment of Complete Knowledge: Hemingway's Theory of the Vision of the Dying -- 7. Reading Through Hemingway's Void: The Death of Consciousness as Conversion or Annihilation -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.