Ernest Hemingway : His Journalism and Style

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Ernets Hemingway, the best-known writer of his generation is likely to need no introduction to readers today. It means that he was not only a heroic and legendary figure to his generation but also he was studied at all sides by numerous critics.
It is also true that Hemingway's literature seems to be flat and stale now but in the view of the tradition of American literature we are still need to examine and to try to discover the new meaning in his work.
As Philip Young pointed out, "There is probably no country in which American books are read whose literature has been entirely unaffected by Hemingway's work, he is still an important writer in all senses. Almost all his works were derived from his actual experiences, such as in fighting, hunting and bullfighting but he used his material to suit his imaginative purpose.
On the positive side he has taught the values of objectivity and honesty, has helped to purify our writing of sentimentality, literary embellishment, padding and a superficial artfulness. He has revitalized the writing of dialogue.
Hemingway's literary apprenticeship was served in journalism, so I tried to survey his journalistic career and examined the journalistic elements which had influenced on his works.
Second, I examined the chracteristics of his style. For the most part it is colloquial, charaterized chiefly by a conscientious simplicity of diction and sentence structure. The words are short and common ones and there is severe economy, and also a surious freshness in their use.
It is also an unintellectual style. Events are described strictly in the sequence in which they occurred: we can not need to reorder or analyze them and perceptions come to the reader unmixed with comment from the author. The impression, is of intense objectivity : the writer provides nothing but stimuli.
Dialogue along with the sequence of motion and fact is essential to his freshness. Especially his use of interior monologue is effective when sensations from the outer world are entering the stream of a character's consciousness.
In this paper, some observations about the range and choices of vocabulary, the use of adjectives, the limitations on verbs, the ways of handling of syntax, monologue etc. are consequently support the definition of Buffon's, "The style is the man."
As Mark Schorer's remarks, "His style is not only his subject, it is his view of life" and also his way of life.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序言
• Ⅱ. Journalism
• Ⅲ. Style
• Ⅳ. 結言