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Hills Like White Elephants (Criticism): Information from Answers.com - 0 views

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Hills Like White Elepants Ernest Hemingway

shared by Chelsea Usher on 11 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Hemingway leaves his characters as he found them, in the middle of something larger,
  • Hemingway leaves his characters as he found them, in the middle of something larger
  • Such critical interest at least suggests that the story is a rich, open text, one that invites reader participation in the process of meaning-making.
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  • suggests that the story develops the way a film or play might develop and that the short descriptive passages read almost like stage directions
  • allusion, simile, imagery, and symbolism
  • it is a text that invites participation
  • In an early review of the story, Dorothy Parker described the story as “delicate and tragic.”
  • Chelsea Usher on 11 Nov 09
     
    This site identifies the book the story was orginally published in as well as some criticism of the story. The sources page has what look to be good sources on criticism in the time period but our databases don't go back to 1927 in those journals - I tried.
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