LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:6 June 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Art and the Artist in Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not

Dr. Shikha, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

The Legend of Hemingway and Its Impact on the Study of Hemingway Novels

The problem with Hemingway critics is their obsession with the legend of “Hemingway the blowhard, of Hemingway posturing with movie queens, bullfighters, and big fish, or of Hemingway the hard drinker who made pompous male pronouncements in men’s magazines” (Benson 47).

This larger-than-life image, which Hemingway so assiduously cultivated and which the critics so stubbornly pursued has led to serious distortions in the study of the novelist’s art and vision. This preoccupation with the writer’s life has led to the extreme narrowing of the critical focus on the writer’s work. He has been dubbed as an ‘unintellectual’ writer whose writing is marked by conspicuous absence of any idea, or any trace of commitment of any kind, or any objective concern with the historical, cultural and social issues.

If we can forget the man and more so the legend that surrounds him and just concentrate on his writings without the aid of extra-literary disciplines we shall discover the full canvas and complexity of Hemingway’s values and vision as a writer. Once this task is accomplished we shall find that Hemingway was a liberal and committed humanist who over and over again projected in his fiction the humanist ideal of secular and liberal values. It is here that we find the golden streak of his fiction which is central to the understanding of his vision both as man and writer.

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Ms. Shikha, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
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M. K. J. K. College
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Haryana
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