Translating modernism : Fitzgerald and Hemingway / Ronald Berman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.Description: 99 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780817316471 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817316477 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817356651 (pbk.)
- 0817356657 (pbk.)
- 9780817381554 (electronic)
- 0817381554 (electronic)
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 -- Influence
- Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906 -- Influence
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Literature, Modern -- Psychological aspects
- Modernism (Art) -- Influence
- PS374.M535 B4756 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [91]-96) and index.
Introduction: Landscapes and ideas -- Fitzgerald: American dreams -- Fitzgerald: American realities -- Fitzgerald's autobiographies -- Hemingway: thinking about Cézanne -- Hemingway's Michigan landscapes.
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.