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A New Historicist Approach to Hemingway and His Hills Like White Elephants

  

  1. 1. College of Foreign Languages, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan 671003, China;
    2. College of Foreign Languages, Yunnan Normal University,Kunming 650031, China
  • Received:2009-09-30 Online:2010-01-15 Published:2010-01-15

Abstract:

Hills Like White Elephants is an important piece in Hemingway's second collection, Men Without Women, published in
August of 1927. It is the most important short story for Hemingway. This paper analyses the text from two aspects of new historicism,that is, the influence of the writer's life experience on the writing of the short story, the social background of the writing, and also the social phenomena which is reflected by the hero and heroine in the story.

Key words: Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants, new historicism, The Lost Generation

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