The Style of Hemingways Writing in A Farewell to Arms

1、海明威永别了，武器的文体风格the style of hemingways writing in a farewell to armscontentsabstract.11. introduction .22. hemingways style in a farewell to arms. .32.1 hemingways simplicity. 32.2 the implicitly artistic writing.62.3 hemingways dialogues. .103. conclusion. 11reference.12the style of hemingways writi

2、ng ina farewell to arms摘 要：本文主要讨论海明威的文体风格在永别了,武器中是如何体现的.海明威的生活经历史如何影响它的创作风格的,他著名的创作风格:简单,直接,然而却能将各种情感表现得淋漓尽致,即言外之意,这都要归功于他著名的冰山理论原理.海明威简洁的散文风格在书中有很好地体现. 它从主人公的现实角度来叙述,读者很难找到作者的声音,这样就避免了详细地描写等手法.本文主要从三方面入手: 一是海明威的简约风格在永别了,武器中的体现;二是海明威所使用的独特含蓄表现手法如象征,意象等，以及冰山理论在文中的体现;三是海明威对对话的描写及其作用在文中的体现。关键词: 海明威；文体风

3、格； 永别了,武器abstract: this article mainly discusses the stylistic of hemingways writing in a farewell to arms，and discusses how the authors adventurous life and other influences contributed to his signature style: simple, straightforward, yet clearly conveying those emotions “beneath the surface.” the

4、famous iceberg theory. hemingways signature declarative, terse prose serves him well in this novela farewell to arms. it enables our narrator to be initially detached from life, and also serves to paint an uncompromising picture of the war. additionally, it is used to produce a realistic narrative f

5、rom henrys point of view, shying away from elaborate schemes and descriptions. i mainly focus on three points to analyse the stylistic of hemingways writing in a farewell to arms: first, hemingway simplicity; secondly, hemingways implicitly artistic writing, such as symbols and images and his iceber

6、g theory; thirdly, the dialogue in hemingways writing in the novel.keywords: hemingway；style；a farewell to arms1. introduction when a writer becomes famous, he or she probably influences a generation at the time. but it is difficult to affect the following generations at home or abroad. in this mode

7、rn society, there had been a big flash of new theories and new ideas in both social and natural sciences, as well as in the field of literature. however it is no exaggerating to say that ernest hemingway is one of the well-known writers home and abroad, especially famous for his unique style.his rec

8、ognizable prose style and innovative “iceberg theory”, in which the author only gives the reader the necessary information and leave the rest for the readers to figure out, have gained him an immovable place in american literature as he had never fallen out of favor with academic studies or critics.

9、 his biggest theme of “grace under pressure,” keeping ones dignity in the face of extreme situations, is one he stove to keep in his own life. his style has been widely recognized and imitated, not only in english-speaking countries but also all over the world.although critics give a various critici

10、sm on hemingways life attitudes and value systems, most critics say well on his writing style, saying that hemingway is a master of the modern narrative art and his style is unique in the world. he can select the most typical instance and events from many complicated events in social life, hiding hi

11、s subjective intensive writing, the objective and accurate descriptions gave the readers a vivid picture about life. meanwhile he gives the readers room to imagine and to figure out their own ideas in their realistic life. it is no doubt to say that hemingways style is important to do research and i

12、mitate for novelists in the country and also all over the world. as some critics said that a farewell to arms is one novel, which can be the most representative work to hemingways special style. here this article will do a research on how hemingway develops his style in this novel through three poin

13、ts.a farewell to arms is one of hemingways war and love stories, this novel takes place in italy during world war i and is tied closely to the authors own experience as an american ambulance driver for the italian army. the story opens during a lull in the action and the reader meets a group of men

14、who work with the wounded during battle. in the course of waiting for action, the protagonist, henry, meets and courts an english nurse stationed in italy. the core of the tale is the evolution of the love of these two in the face of increasing military involvement, including an engagement in which

15、henry is wounded and after his return to the front, an italian retreat from which he barely escapes with his life. ultimately, he and catherine, his english love, defect and enter switzerland to await the birth of their child. baby and mother both die and henry is left alone, his future left by the

16、author unplotted.2. hemingways style in a farewell to arms2.1 hemingways simplicityone will become a little bored when he or she reads a book with long sentences which also have many adjectives. this fiction style is popular in the britain and the united states in the 19th century. if one can not co

17、ncentrate to finish a long sentence, he or she maybe can not understand its meaning. it is like a long train of cars, when you stand on it and cannot see the end. but reading hemingways writing one will not have such feeling. most of his sentences are simple short and easy to understand. hemingway i

18、s a special hand on using the language. his style is noted for its simplicity. instead of using more drown out, overly descriptive writing, his stories were more of a “get to the point” style. this gave his works a more different feel and set them aside from what was common during his lifetime. in a

19、ddition he focuses on nouns and verbs and reduces the use of adjectives, especially complicated adjectives. in sentence structure, he uses coordinated clauses to avoid subordinated clauses that would imply value judgments. he uses the short and condensed sentences and a series of verbs to pull the e

20、vents going on. so this makes the whole book a simple but clear structure, for example:“maybe she would pretend that i was her boy that was killed and we would go in the front door and the porter would take off his cap and would stop at the concierges desk and ask for the key and she would stand by

21、the elevator and then we would get in the elevator and it would go up very slowly clicking at all the doors and then our door and the boy would open the door and stand there and she would step out and i would step out and we would walk down the hall and i would put the key in the door and open it and go in and then take down the telephone and ask them to send a bottle of capri bianco in a silver bucket full of ice and you would hear the ice against the pail coming down the corrider and the boy would knock and i would sa