English Language and Literature ETDs

Publication Date

7-1-1969

Abstract

Ernest Hemingway on occasion resorted to the language of the sports world to talk about literature. In Lillian Ross’s well known profile of Hemingway, he employed boxing terminoogy to describe his relationship to certain other writers. “I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one.” If the metaphor of Hemingway climbing into the ring to slug it out with “Mr.” Turgenev et al is a bit startling, it represents nevertheless a competitive attitude toward literature which Hemingway expressed a number of times over a period which covered almost all of his adult life.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

Fred Warner

Second Committee Member

Mary Jane Power

Third Committee Member

Ivan Peter Melada

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

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