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Chapter 18（continued） Modern Fiction Between the Wars Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) 1899, born in Oak Park, Illinois, good times of boyhood : hunting and fishing, hiking, camping, boating, and athletics. 1917, reporter of the Kansas City Star. 1918, joined a Red Cross ambulance unit assigned to service in Italy. July, 1918, get wounded. The physical and psychological aftereffects of the experience persisted for years. traumatic experience: Nick Adams; Jake Barnes; Frederic Henry 1921, came to Paris, where he received encouragement in his pursuit of concrete fact, and an example of how to do it, from Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. 1954, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style Hemingway’s style One of the finest literary stylists of the 20th century. a telegraphic, lean, simple; b pulsing with emotions; c principle of iceberg: 7/8 underwater for every 1/8 showing)—forces readers to “read between the lines”; also called “hard-boiled” (不带感情的) style. d a style of living Hemingway’s style a telegraphic, lean, simple; Hemingway’s style is simple on the surface. In diction, he prefers nouns and verbs and reduces the use of adjectives, especially complicated adjectives. In sentence structures, he uses coordinated clauses to avoid subordinated clauses that would imply value judgments. Hemingway’s style: b pulsing with emotions; One of Hemingway’s greatest contributions to literature was his distinctive prose style, one that seems stripped down of all superfluous words but nevertheless seems to pulse with emotion. Interestingly, it is with this simple style that Hemingway effectively conveys some intense and complex emotions. These feeling often seem negative: the meaninglessness of modern life, a sense of loss (particularly the loss of love), disillusionment, grief, frustrations and despair. Th