On the Correlations Between Hemingway's Literary Thought and His Expatriate Experience
Hemingway's long expatriate experience helps him forge unique and influencing literary thought.Hemingway's unique literary thought has drawn much attention of critics over the decades of Hemingway literary criticism,while the correlations between his thought and his expatriate experience has almost been neglected.The emphasis of trueness,integrity and definitiveness in writing is the core of Hemingway's literary thought.It has a clear characteristic of time and space,and is influenced by his expatriate experience.He chooses to leave America to escape his family culture,religious culture as well as the culture of popular consumerism of the American society in 1920s.The study of Hemingway's literary thought should examine its internal unity and its relationship with his expatriate experience.The experience serves as the motivation and basis of Hemingway's literary thought,and thus is of great significance in understanding and elucidating the core of it.