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Download or read book A Bottomless Pit Logics of Drinks in Hemingway s The Sun Also Rises and Chandler s The Big Sleep written by Thérèse Remus and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A/ 1,0, New York University (Department of English), course: Seminar: "Transatlantic Modernism," language: English, comment: Prof. Perry Meisel: "Very excellent work--your command of the bibliography is superb, as is your close and exact reading of Hemingway in particular. Your reading of Chandler is more complex, and you could go much further in the very imaginative direction you stake out regarding what you call the 'cinematic' aspect of drinking that goes beyond, but also takes for granted, what drinking means in Heminway. All in all, though, a very impressive paper.," abstract: Given that both authors, Hemingway and Chandler, represent a rather lean and reduced style, the extraordinary emphasis put on the recounts of drinking in both narratives is striking. This phenomenal contrast between the significant role of drink within the narrative and the sobriety of the narration on the level of style renders the depiction of scenes around drinking especially noteworthy. Much has been said about Hemingway being a dedicated and heavy drinker and thus literary criticism was often all too easily tempted to reduce the dominance of the topic of drinking in the novels to ..". either the unavoidable ... aspect of the Hemingway hero ..., or [to a] barely mediated reinscription of the author's private drinking habits" (Nicholls 2000 (b): 86). Another approach was taken by representatives of medical and sociological studies on the representation of alcoholism in mass media who understand Hemingway's novel as a depiction of the expatriate scene in 1920s Paris and interpret the text as a promotion of drink as political attitude (cf. Room 1984: 543). These approaches, however, do not consider the functional employment of drink and respective rituals as fundamental elements of narrative structure apart from moral and medical connotations. They furthermore assume a highly simplifi
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