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All AboardReading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway

All AboardReading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway This essay situates Ernest Hemingway’s iconic “Hills Like White Elephants” as a short story about drinking. From this perspective, Hemingway’s story enables readers to experience a personal and deeply felt emotional engagement with the characters, the scene, and the situation. Moreover, his technique enlists readers as “drinking buddies” and provides an entrée into the culture of alcohol. Despite the macho image that Hemingway himself helped construct and deploy, his work invites women into the scene and, indeed, centralizes a key figure often overlooked in the history of modern American fiction criticism: the drinking woman. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png English Language Notes Duke University Press

All AboardReading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway

Lansky, Ellen; Lemon, Rebecca
English Language Notes , Volume 60 (1) – Apr 1, 2022
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0013-8282
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Abstract

This essay situates Ernest Hemingway’s iconic “Hills Like White Elephants” as a short story about drinking. From this perspective, Hemingway’s story enables readers to experience a personal and deeply felt emotional engagement with the characters, the scene, and the situation. Moreover, his technique enlists readers as “drinking buddies” and provides an entrée into the culture of alcohol. Despite the macho image that Hemingway himself helped construct and deploy, his work invites women into the scene and, indeed, centralizes a key figure often overlooked in the history of modern American fiction criticism: the drinking woman.

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English Language Notes – Duke University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2022

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    Benson, Jackson Scafella, Frank
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    Foner, Eric Garraty, John Arthur
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    Hemingway, Ernest
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    Kale, Verna Raskauskas, Jessica
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    Lanier, Doris
  • Ladies Entrance: Women and Bars
    Lupton, Mary Jo
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    Rankin, Paul
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    Treisman, Deborah
  • Ernest Hemingway: The Life as Fiction and the Fiction as Life
    Benson, Jackson Scafella, Frank
  • Volstead Act
    Foner, Eric Garraty, John Arthur
  • Hills Like White Elephants
    Hemingway, Ernest
  • Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants.’
    Kale, Verna Raskauskas, Jessica
  • The Bittersweet Taste of Absinthe in Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants.’
    Lanier, Doris
  • Ladies Entrance: Women and Bars
    Lupton, Mary Jo
  • Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants.’
    Rankin, Paul
  • Ernest Hemingway’s Grandson on an Unpublished Story from the Author’s Archive
    Treisman, Deborah