Testimony of Trauma: Ernest Hemingway’s Narrative Progression in Across the River and into the Trees
Graduation Year
2010
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Granting Department
English
Major Professor
Philip Sipiora, Ph.D
Committee Member
Michael Clune, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Elizabeth Metzger, Ph.D.
Committee Member
James Meredith, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Victor Peppard, Ph.D.
Keywords
Point of view, subjectivity, objectivity, abject, and fictional structures
Abstract
Specifically, the study of the progression focuses on examining Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees for evidence of traumas' effects on Hemingway's development of narrative structure. Throughout his career, Hemingway pinpoints the importance of witnessing and experiencing war on a writer. I endeavor to demonstrate-in detail, achieved by close reading, and with solid evidence-how the imbrication of trauma in Across the River and into the Trees represents a vital moment in Hemingway's progression as a writer. My assertion, a new calculus of subjectivity and objectivity appearing in the narrative structure via the protagonist, viably counters previous critical dismissal of this text and offers new horizons for studies of form and content in Hemingway's writing.
Scholar Commons Citation
Robinson, Kathleen K., "Testimony of Trauma: Ernest Hemingway’s Narrative Progression in Across the River and into the Trees" (2010). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/1752
