A Study of Donnee in Ernest Hemingway's Early Short Stories of the 1920s

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06066
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: KAWADA Eisuke 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教 (10756266)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 英語・英米圏文学 / アメリカ文学 / 修辞学 / 詩学 / 文芸思想 / ヘミングウェイ / ニュー・クリティシズム / 脱構築

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By conducting close reading and manuscript examination on Ernest Hemingway’s short stories of early 1920s, this study articulates the hidden characteristics of Hemingway’s writing theory of omission---“Principle of Iceberg.” By way of examining in detail the rhetorical stylizations embedded in the following six works, such as 1. “Light of the World,” 2. “The Sea Change,” 3．“Cat in the Rain,” 4. “A Simple Enquiry,” 5. “In Another Country,” 6. “Hills Like White Elephants,”this research argues that such writing technique aims to generate effects of not only concealment, but also ambiguity that constitutes subversion, fallibility, oxymoron, and aporia in literary space.

Free Research Field

英米圏文学