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JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG THEORY: HEMINGWAY AND SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S "LONELINESS".

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From: The Hemingway Review
Date: 20000322
Author:MORELAND, KIM

ERNEST HEMINGWAY FIRST DESCRIBED his aesthetic theory in Death in the Afternoon (1932), employing the metaphor of the iceberg to carry the weight of his argument. He explicitly articulated this theory again in a 1958 Paris Review interview, in his unpublished 1959 essay "The Art of the Short Story," and in his posthumously published memoir A Moveable Feast (1964). Though Rose Marie Burwell suggests that Hemingway's "iceberg theory had begun to dissolve" (54) with Robert Jordan's interiority in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Hemingway's repeated references over the course of ...

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