'In the Stream of Life': Teaching The Garden of Eden Contextually

Bourne works to resist the countervailing forces of the outer world (primarily embodied in Catherine's attempts to keep him from his writing or to dictate the shape of his writing) while embracing the irony that to remain "in the stream of life" he must balance the interior and the ex...

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Published in:The Hemingway review 2010-09, Vol.30 (1), p.107-115
Main Author: Miller, Linda Patterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Artists
Authors
Authorship
Fitzgerald, F Scott (1896-1940)
Hemingway, Ernest
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
Irony
Literary criticism
Memory
Modernism
Novels
Works
Writers
Writing
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Summary:Bourne works to resist the countervailing forces of the outer world (primarily embodied in Catherine's attempts to keep him from his writing or to dictate the shape of his writing) while embracing the irony that to remain "in the stream of life" he must balance the interior and the exterior, the objective and the subjective, the actual physical world and the intangible emotional world of memory. Reading Garden at the end of the course - after considering its authorship, posthumous publication, relation to Hemingway's biography, and place in the history of "modernism" - leaves the course purposefully unfinished, like the novel and like modern art.
ISSN:0276-3362
1548-4815
1548-4815
DOI:10.1353/hem.2010.a402884