Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action (Studies in American Thought and Culture) - Softcover

Cirino, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299286541 ISBN 13: 9780299286545

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012

Synopsis

Ernest Hemingway’s groundbreaking prose style and examination of timeless themes made him one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. Yet in Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action, Mark Cirino observes, “Literary criticism has accused Hemingway of many things but thinking too deeply is not one of them.” Although much has been written about the author’s love of action—hunting, fishing, drinking, bullfighting, boxing, travel, and the moveable feast—Cirino looks at Hemingway’s focus on the modern mind, paralleling the interest in consciousness of such predecessors and contemporaries as Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Henry James. Hemingway, Cirino demonstrates, probes the ways his character’s minds respond when placed in urgent situations or when damaged by past traumas.
    In Cirino’s analysis of Hemingway’s work through this lens—including such celebrated classics as A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and “Big Two-Hearted River” and less-appreciated works including Islands in the Stream and “Because I Think Deeper”—an entirely different Hemingway hero emerges: intelligent, introspective, and ruminative.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Cirino is assistant professor of English at the University of Evansville. He is the co-editor of Ernest Hemingway: Geography of Memory and the general editor of Kent State University Press's 'Reading Hemingway' series. He is also the author of two novels, Name the Baby and Arizona Blues.

Review

“Cirino [...] collapses the distinction between thought and action that has traditionally typecast Hemingway as an anti-intellectual dolt—the ‘he-man’ of American literature.’”—Kirk Curnutt, author of Coffee with Hemingway

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0299286541
• ISBN 13: 9780299286545
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 182