Translating modernism : Fitzgerald and Hemingway

✍ Scribed by Ronald Berman

• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 111
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book the author continues his career long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America's major modernist writers. Here he shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and psychological influences, influences particular to each writer, particular to the time in which they wrote, and which left distinctive marks on their entire oeuvres. Specifically, he addresses the idea of "translating" or "translation", for Fitzgerald the translation of ideas from Freud, Dewey, and James, among others; and for Hemingway the translation of visual modernism and composition, via Cezanne. Though each writer had distinct interests and different intellectual problems to wrestle with, as is demonstrated in this work, both had to wrestle with transmuting some outside influence and making it their own. Read more... Content: Introduction: Landscapes and ideas -- Fitzgerald: American dreams -- Fitzgerald: American realities -- Fitzgerald's autobiographies -- Hemingway: thinking about Cézanne -- Hemingway's Michigan landscapes. Abstract: In this book the author continues his career long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America's major modernist writers. Here he shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and psychological influences, influences particular to each writer, particular to the time in which they wrote, and which left distinctive marks on their entire oeuvres. Specifically, he addresses the idea of "translating" or "translation", for Fitzgerald the translation of ideas from Freud, Dewey, and James, among others; and for Hemingway the translation of visual modernism and composition, via Cezanne. Though each writer had distinct interests and different intellectual problems to wrestle with, as is demonstrated in this work, both had to wrestle with transmuting some outside influence and making it their own

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Introduction: Landscapes and Ideas......Page 12
1. Fitzgerald: American Dreams......Page 24
2. Fitzgerald: American Realities......Page 37
3. Fitzgerald’s Autobiographies......Page 50
4. Hemingway: Thinking about Cézanne......Page 63
5. Hemingway’s Michigan Landscapes......Page 75
Notes......Page 88
Selected Bibliography......Page 102
Index......Page 108