... suitable for investigation of constituents and characteristics of stories of initiation. Furthermore, their different topics as well as arrangements offer a broad range of material for investigation. As the analysis will focus on the definition of stories of initiation and the appliance of these criteria on Hemingway′s short fiction, other aspects of interpretation (e.g. the often mentioned autobiographical content ... by other characteristics to define stories of initiation which will be discussed in the following chapters. There are, however, still some definitions which also find pa...

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... Ernest Hemingway, and the novella, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, both contain covert alternate meanings that emanate from the authors' literary style preferences. The alternate meanings can be considered "hidden meanings" as they do not directly convey any information that overtly states ... they both stray from the grander narrative. Analyzing different aspects of each narrative reveals information supporting the hidden meanings. Both of the literary works' hidden meanings also have many alternate hidden meanings that can change depending on the perspective from which the stories ...

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... . In 1926, the New York Times published a review of "The Sun Also Rises", stating that Hemingway's writing was so compelling, so lasting in the American psyche that "No amount of analysis can convey the quality of "The Sun Also Rises." It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature ... he is able to communicate emotion, desire, rejection and cruelty without using a single falsehood or opinion, without ever breaking his perceived objectivity. As Elizabeth Wells says in her brilliant statistical analysis of ...

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... He returned to America in 1919 and married in 1921. Attracted by the anonymity of Parisian life, as the absolute centre of literary/artistic life of western civilization, Hemingway settled and renewed friendship with fellow expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Hemingway's first two ... note that his style would not only reflect the times and phases that he went through, but he would have been influenced by and learned from his literary forbears. "Mark Twain, Flaubert, Stendhal, Bach, Turgeniev, Tolstoi, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Maupassant, The good Kipl...

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