Masks, voices, echoes: Ernest Hemingway constructing the writer/reader relationship.

摘要

Hemingway offers a unique opportunity for study because of his mastering a recognizable style and the unprecedented celebrity status he gained worldwide. He achieved celebrity status early in his career, and with a high degree of self-consciousness, he strove to maintain and amplify that status. More importantly, he also used this status in his textual construction of relationships with his readers, whom he knew would have his reputation in mind as they read.; Therefore, in light of these facts, I wish to examine in detail the means by which a writer fictionalizes his audience, and the writer, in turn, constructs a personality or “voice” (in the text) while addressing that audience. In doing so, I shall focus on various stylistic features in Hemingway's writing as I examine how he constructs a voice in various texts across the range of his career.