VCCS Litonline Commentary on "Hills Like White Elephants"
a short story by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1960)
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"Hemingway’s aesthetic theory . . . stated that omitting the right thing from a story could actually strengthen it. Hemingway equated this theory with the structure of an iceberg where only 1/8 of the iceberg could be seen above water while the remaining 7/8 under the surface provided the iceberg’s dignity of motion and contributed to its momentum."--from the Hemingway Resource Center |
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See also
this Hemingway-related website in Litonline--
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Photo of Ernest Hemingway waving a bullfighter's cape while actress Ava Gardner and world famous bullfighter Dominguin look on was downloaded from one of the six "Papa Pages": http://www.ee.mcgill.ca/~nverever/hem/bio_p6.html
According to the site author, Marcel Mitran, the picture is the property of JFK Library, Scribner's Sons or A.E. Hotchner. Specific attribution is supposedly at http://www.ee.mcgill.ca/~nverever/hem/preface.html#copyright , which I was not able to contact. The photo may not be copied for profit.
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This lesson was originally prepared in 1997 under a Courseware Grant for the Virginia Community College System to become part of the Litonline website. The developer is Eric P. Hibbison (ehibbison@reynolds.edu), Professor of English at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, which houses the Literature Online site, with helpful ideas from students, like Megan Goldman (2003) and others. |
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The URL for this web is
http://vccslitonline.vccs.edu/copy_of_hills/
To Turn the page, click one of the links next to the photo,
above.
When in doubt, click the link to the "sitemap," a website table of contents.