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Comparing the Presentation of America and Britain in the Fiction of Hemingway and Waugh

During the early 20th Century, America and England began to drift further and further apart
in terms of their understanding of fiction
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According to theorists on the
American Author we still seemingly critique Hemingway's writing in hopes of getting another
angle, or a better glimpse of his characters and their transfigurations - whether these actually
happen or not is completely separate from the events that happen at place and time in the
work
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The reason for their difference is obviously tainted with the American dislike of British rule
dating as far back as the late 1700s
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The two authors use two different techniques in order to change the course
of popular literature in the early 20th Century - both wanting to achieve the same death of
the aesthetic culture, but both doing it in different ways
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The very fact that
Sebastian's teddy bear is even called Aloysius, after the Saint [and the building at Oxford],
gives us a cross between the religious, the upper-class snobbery of Britain and the highly
immoral lives led by these people [Sebastian Flyte and Julia Marchmain]
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Whereas,

1
Zaid, A
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The Camouflage of the Sacred in the Short Fiction of Hemingway
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21 (1), pp
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2
Christopher Chilton (2013) The Gilded Tortoise in Evelyn Waugh's BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
and J
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Huysmans’s A REBOURS, The Explicator, 71(1), pp
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Koziol, Slawomir
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" Miscellanea (52) 2015, pp
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Hemingway's fiction is blended with political discourse, activism and international relations
as in his own lifetime, Hemingway was forced to surrender his farm to the revolutionaries of
Castro after his relocation to Cuba from the States
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Though
Evelyn Waugh's life does not impress so much upon his work, Hemingway's definitely shows
itself to be there; with novels such as For Whom the Bell Tolls containing Hemingway's own
political stances on the American 30s
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The comments that Jake
makes in The Sun Also Rises are comments after events have taken place and are therefore,
part of a confessional5 rather than Brideshead's more social-commentary and aestheticcritical style
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A calm and almost depressing place,
America is filled with war terror, PTSD and a Birdsong-esque atmosphere of tension, worry,
metaphor and tragic love a la Fitzgerald
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4
Greenspan, A
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Ernest Hemingway and His Growth as a Political Activist in the 1930s
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6 (5), pp
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5
Nagel, J
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The Confessional Narration in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
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The Companion to the American Novel
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pp
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