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Pause as a Discursive Element in Hemingway’s Selected Short Stories
Pause as a Discursive Element in Hemingway’s Selected Short Stories

Author(s): Hakan Gültekin, Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Hemingway; declaration of nothingness; psychological resistance; ideological stance; silence and pau

Summary/Abstract: The impetus behind this study is to investigate how pauses produce silence that indicate (a) declaration of nothingness, (b) psychological resistance and (c) ideological stance. The paper investigates the pauses in the texts and reveals the relationships between silence produced by pauses and themes of the stories. The paper argues that, first; Hemingway portrays the psychological resistance of the fictional characters using silence. Second, silence is used as a thematic marker in Hemingway’s stories implying nothingness. Lastly, silence contributes to ideological stance.

  • Issue Year: 41/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 20-45
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: English