Ernest Hemingway - American Writers 1: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers [Paperback]

Philip Young (Author)

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Series: Pamphlets on American Writers | Publication Date: October 23, 1959

Ernest Hemingway - American Writers 1 was first published in 1959. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.

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Philip Young was a professor of American literature at the Pennsylvania State University. His book-length study, Ernest Hemingway, was published by Rinehart in 1952. It was also published in England and has been translated into several foreign languages.

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• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; Minnesota Archive Editions edition (October 23, 1959)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816601917
• ISBN-13: 978-0816601912
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars The first definition of the Hemingway code- hero, October 24, 2004

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This review is from: Ernest Hemingway - American Writers 1: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (Paperback)

Philip Young is I believe the first critic to provide a clear understanding of the Hemingway code - hero. The hero is not as some may think the public figure hero the bullfighter, or the champion boxer or even the commanding soldier . The hero is like Hemingway himself and like Jake Barnes and in a way Nick Adams the one who has been wounded in the war and who must somehow " be stronger at the broken places". The public hero in his ' grace under pressure ' may give an example. But the code hero the true Hemingway hero has to imitate in silence without complaint, without big words, without heroic proclamation of himself those simple right actions which answer the situation. This is in accord with the famous Hemingway passage when he speaks about the inability after the War to use words like ' sacred ' and ' patriotic' , the big words. The code hero instead wounded, numbed must act in a kind of clean and efficient almost ritual way in restoring himself and the world. Simple action with a minimum of words. Action which is repeated almost like a ritual. Action which has something of the quality of the famous Heminway style with its hypnotic Biblical simplicity and its conjunctive connections. The rhythmic ' and ' and ' and' of Hemingway's prose conveys too the mirror of this kind of redemptive action.
An excellent work for better understanding the whole structure and basic meaning of the Hemingway word and act.