31 research outputs found
He Had Never Written a Word of That : Regret and Counterfactuals in Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro
No full textExamines the use of embedded “counterfactuals” within the short story, arguing that these might-have-been scenarios provide coherence to a seemingly fragmented narrative. The counterfactuals convey Helen’s situational regret and Harry’s squandered writing potential. Harding reads the false ending as a counterfactual meant to elicit a similar sense of disappointment in the reader. Points out that Hemingway’s excess of counterfactual material smugly celebrates his own quite fulfilled writing potential. Slightly revised version published as “Complex Regrets: Counterfactuals in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’” in Similes, Puns, and Counterfactuals in Literary Narrative (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics Series), 128-39. New York: Routledge, 2017
Simple Regrets: Counterfactuals and the Dialogic Mind
No full textCounterfactuals, or unrealized scenarios, have been a focus of research in an array of disciplines, though their rhetorical implications have gone largely unexplored. This interdisciplinary study uses a cognitive methodology in taking a fresh look at counterfactual scenarios in discourse. The study argues that when counterfactual scenarios are introduced into discourse and paired with an evaluative stance, the result is a creative and persuasive scenario that allows a speaker to communicate a perspective that a listener may reinforce, revise, or reject. Counterfactuals thus have the ability to convey an evaluation, to convey emotion, to provide a window for disagreement, or to foster solidarity. In literature, counterfactual scenarios additionally serve as an embedded element of discourse that may convey the perspective of characters and/or the implied author. The reader juggles the counterfactual scenarios, and the perspectives they convey, with other textual elements to grasp the meaning of the story.
This study furthers previous research on counterfactuality by considering the phenomenon from a cognitive rhetorical perspective. Rather than focusing on counterfactual thinking, as psychologists have done, or on linguistic forms, as linguists have done, this study considers both the cognitive and discursive dimensions of counterfactuals in a fully integrated analysis. Furthermore, this study places counterfactuals within a communicative paradigm that considers the role of both speaker and listener, or author and reader, in developing and interpreting counterfactual scenarios. This study thus demonstrates the largely unrecognized rhetorical dimensions of counterfactual scenarios in both ordinary and literary discourse
Great Strides: A History of Henson Aviation During the 1980s
No full textAbout the Author
Jennifer Dennis is currently an undergraduate student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide. She is a former student of The University of Maryland University College and is an active member of the National Society of Leadership and Success and Phi Theta Kappa. Her academic goal is to advance her career in the field of aviation and human resources management and to one day give back in honor of those who made higher education a reality for her
Metaphors, Narrative Frames, and Cognitive Distance in Charles Chesnutt’s “Dave’s Neckliss”
No full textComplex Regrets: Counterfactuals in Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro
No full textPreviously published as “‘He Had Never Written a Word of That’: Regret and Counterfactuals in Hemingway’s ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’” in Hemingway Review 30, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 21-35.
