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The Narrative Mode and Focalization in Hemingway's Short Story On "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

Wei Liu

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Ernest Hemingway was bestowed the Nobel Prize for literature on account of his mastery of modern narrative art.Among his short fiction,The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber is a masterpiece of his narrative artistry.Besides the linear narrative mode,it is embedded a sub-mode of repetition and contrast.While concerning its complicated focalization style,this short story exemplifies a special case of omnipresence: with the narrator's focalization offering the structure and characters' focalization the details.

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Ernest Hemingway was bestowed the Nobel Prize for literature on account of his mastery of modern narrative art.Among his short fiction,The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber is a masterpiece of his narrative artistry.Besides the linear narrative mode,it is embedded a sub-mode of repetition and contrast.While concerning its complicated focalization style,this short story exemplifies a special case of omnipresence: with the narrator's focalization offering the structure and characters' focalization the details.

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Ernest Hemingway was bestowed the Nobel Prize for literature on account of his mastery of modern narrative art.Among his short fiction,The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber is a masterpiece of his narrative artistry.Besides the linear narrative mode,it is embedded a sub-mode of repetition and contrast.While concerning its complicated focalization style,this short story exemplifies a special case of omnipresence: with the narrator's focalization offering the structure and characters' focalization the details.

Key concepts: Focalization, Narrative, Omnipresence, Repetition (rhetorical device), Literature, Mode (computer interface), Art, Philosophy

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