Hemingway's laboratory : the Paris In our time / / Milton A. Cohen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814509303321
• Autore: Cohen Milton A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005
• ISBN: 0-8173-8636-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.52; 813/.52
• Soggetti: American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-257) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Before In our time : multiple directions -- A coalescence of pieces : composing In our time -- Narrative modes -- Voices -- Sentence rhythms -- The chapters.
• Sommario/riassunto: Illuminates the development of Hemingway's themes and techniques and his future course as a stylist and writer. In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titled in our time, the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway's story collection In Our Time. Those vignettes, as Milton Cohen demonstrates in Hemingway's Laboratory, reveal a range of voices, narrative strategies, and fictional interests more wide-ranging and experimental than any other extant wo