Hemingway's Iceberg Theory in Hills Like White Elephants and The Killers

Hemingway's Iceberg Theory in Hills Like White Elephants and The Killers
Author: Thomas Müller
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2005-10-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 3638432858

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Tubingen (Seminar für Englische Philologie), course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: Hemingway once said: “If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There are seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.” Hemingway tended to not tell the reader about how the characters in his stories feel or think. He lets the reader develop his own ideas about the background or intentions of the characters. This Essay will show and compare the use of this theory in two of Hemingway’s short stories, “Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Killers”.

Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time

Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time
Author: Matthew Stewart
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781571130174

He includes a consideration of biographical and historical events that had a direct bearing on the work. Finally he places In Our Time in relation to later works by Hemingway, both those that grow out of it, and those that do not."--BOOK JACKET.

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway
Author: Kevin Alexander Boon
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761425908

"A biography of writer Ernest Hemingway that describes his era, his major works--especially The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea, his life, and the legacy of his writing"--Provided by publisher.

Men Without Women

Men Without Women
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2023-11-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Men Without Women is a collection of short stories written by American author Ernest Hemingway. "The Killers", "Hills Like White Elephants", and "In Another Country" are considered to be among Hemingway's best works. the subject matter of these stories includes bullfighting, prizefighting, infidelity, divorce, and death. Table of Contents: The Undefeated In Another Country Hills Like White Elephants The Killers Che Ti Dice La Patria? Fifty Grand A Simple Enquiry Ten Indians A Canary for One An Alpine Idyll A Pursuit Race Today is Friday Banal Story Now I Lay Me

The Secret Speech

The Secret Speech
Author: Tom Rob Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2009-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847377157

Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime is beginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. The catalyst comes when a secret manifesto composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant and a murderer. Its promise: The Soviet Union will transform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin's tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature. Meanwhile, former MGB officer Leo Demidov is facing his own turmoil. The two young girls he and his wife Raisa adopted have yet to forgive him for his involvement in the murder of their parents. They are not alone. Now that the truth is out, Leo, Raisa and their family are in grave danger from someone with a grudge against Leo. Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance.

Men Without Women

Men Without Women
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: LA CASE Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1927
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often-uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. "The Killers" is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. Nick Adams makes an appearance in "Ten Indians," in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. And "Hills Like White Elephants" is a young couple's subtle, heart-wrenching discussion of abortion. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer.

Hemingway

Hemingway
Author: Michael S. Reynolds
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780393319811

"A living, breathing biography that reads like a good novel...The stuff of which Pulitzer prizes are made." --Library Journal (starred review)