The Marvellous Thing Is That It's Painless : The Rhetoric of Anaesthesia in Hemingway's Texts

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This paper demonstrates how anaesthesia, the celebrated technological innovation of the nineteenth century, influenced Hemingway's works. When first invented, anaesthesia was regarded as the most triumphant symbol of civilized society, as a great accomplishment ,indicating that humanity had af last overcome pain. Yet, at the beginning of the twentieth century and with the decisive influence of the war producing general disillusionment among the postwar generation, anaesthesia turned into a symbol of the paralyzed inertness of the era and came to be charged with negative values. Focusing on the negative implication of the paralyzed state and,100king chronologically at his depictions of the benumbed sensation from the earliest stories to those in the late 1930s, we will make it clear how Hemingway used the motif of non-sensation in his stories to overcome the period of his literary sterility and to restore his creative energy.
岩手県立大学の論文
2004-01-31