美国文学6Hemingway.pptVIP

the war in his writing After the war, Hemingway settled in Paris, the literary capital of the world He worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. in Paris, he became acquainted with Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Sherwood Anderson, all American expatriates. Hemingway soon became a spokesman for the Lost Generation writers disillusioned by the war. From 1944-1945, he was a war correspondent on the Western Front during World War II Literary Awards Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, published in 1952 won him a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize. On July 2, 1961, Hemingway died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound in Ketchum, Ohio A spokesman for the Lost Generation The Hemingway Code Hero  Hemingway code hero originated with scholar Philip Young. He uses it to describe a Hemingway character who lives correctly, following certain principles of honor, courage, and endurance which in a life of tension and pain make a man a man. The Hemingway Code Hero  Throughout many of Hemingway’s novels the code hero acts in a manner which allowed the critic to formulate a particular code. ???? -?? he does not talk about what he believes in. ???? -?? He does not talk too much.? He expresses himself not in words, but in actions.? The Hemingway Hero is not a thinker, he is a man of action.? Hemingway’s Writing Style  The use of short, simple and conventional words ; sentences has an effect of clearness, terseness and great care. “The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” the facts float above water; the supporting structure and symbolism operate out-of-sight. ice-berg principle If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. A Clean and Well-lighted Place a classic short story between the old man and the two wai