“GIÃ TỪ VŨ khí” CỦa tác giả ernest hemingway khóa luận cử nhân ngành khoa học quân sự Chuyên ngành: Tiếng Anh
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- 2.3.1. Personal impressions about Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory and its manifestation in the novel “A Farewell to Arms”
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Hemingway's Iceberg Theory has always been a topic of heated discussion among literary critics since it demonstrates to the great extent the talent and dedication of the author concerning his writing technique in particular. Conducting a study on the subject related to Hemingway's marvelous writing technique, the author of this paper has gradually been forming distinct impressions about Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory and its manifestation in the novel “A Farewell to Arms”, as well as the talent of the great writer Ernest Hemingway. Underlined in this section are the researcher’s personal lines of thought on the research objects and a number of significant lessons drawn from a personal perspective. 2.3.1. Personal impressions about Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory and its manifestation in the novel “A Farewell to Arms” Some of this simplifying instinct came from his early training as a journalist, which was a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. But it would be a mistake to think Hemingway was concerned with mere word count; more than any reporter, he wanted to implicate the reader in his stories at the deepest emotional level. He used omission - eliminating a character’s backstory or referring to important plot points only elliptically - to encourage readers to fill in these missing pieces using their own reserves of experience. He believed strongly in the power of the unstated. He likened the effect to an iceberg: “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water”, he wrote in Death in the Afternoon. He fleshed this metaphor out in his 1958 interview with The Paris Review, saying, “I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg . . . to eliminate everything unnecessary to conveying experience to the reader so that after he or she has read something it will become a part of his or her experience and seem actually to have happened.” In the sparse landscape of Hemingway’s prose, it is the reader’s intuitive inclusion of detail that completes the story. Rather than telling us how to feel, Hemingway nudges us toward our own conclusions. We are required to read something of ourselves into his stories - a distinctly American and democratic view of writing. In the meantime, it is interesting to note that Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory unexpectedly fits our conception of old literature, especially about poems. This is because in Vietnam, we have the concept of meanings lying outside words (Ý tại ngôn ngoại), which can be clearly illustrated in The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du, especially when it comes to his character description. This can manifest itself starkly in the way that Nguyen Du only uses some verbs such as “khấu đầu”, “kêu ca” to show the cleverness of Hoan Thu when she has to deal with Thuy Kieu’s serious accusation of misconduct against her. Another outstanding example could be the description of Thuy Van’s beauty by means of natural objects and their acts of genuine humility through such words as “cười” and “thốt”, thus leading to the presumption of Van’s peaceful lifetime. Therefore, there is likelihood that Vietnamese readers can access Hemingway’s literary works in a much easier style since the two have quite the same writing technique of encouraging audience to read between the lines. Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory proves to be well presented in “A Farewell to Arms”, where much of the content has been omitted, leaving the readers to explore it through their logical thinking and imagination. The researcher figured out that Hemingway makes the most use of diction to the extent that there has emerged a new writing technique called colloquial writing style, as followed by his success in the use of informal diction in this novel. It is also true that Ernest Hemingway uses parataxis extensively. With this structure, he avoids making causal connections in his narration, which is one of the most famous aspects of Hemingway’s writing. But the unpredictability that the anti-causal nature of the narrative suggests is counteracted by another, less apparent, narrative tool of the author, which is the extensive repetition that Hemingway employs in the novel. All in all, the four literary devices are successfully utilized, all attributed as useful tools for manifesting Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory. tải về 120.7 Kb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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