Towards a Unity of Dos Passos's and Hemingway's Aesthetics in The Spanish Earth

Authors

  • Fredrik Tydal University of Virginia

Abstract

In this article, I argue that The Spanish Earth, as the first and only artistic collaboration between John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway, represents a unique fusion of their different aesthetics. In doing so, I hope to show that all the drama surrounding the production of the film has come to obscure the essential unity of the work itself. For despite the fraught circumstances, I believe that Dos Passos and Hemingway were able to put their aesthetic differences aside for their mutual love of Spain, even as the production itself would paradoxically lead to their falling out.

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Author Biography

Fredrik Tydal, University of Virginia

The Axel Wenner-Gren Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of English, University of Virginia

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Published

2016-07-09

How to Cite

Tydal, F. (2016). Towards a Unity of Dos Passos’s and Hemingway’s Aesthetics in The Spanish Earth. The Grove - Working Papers on English Studies, 22. Retrieved from https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/article/view/2505