On Time And Space Art Of Hemingway's Long Novels

Hemingway made full of use of time and space art in his novel creations. Through time and the space in the novel, Hemingway constructed his own special literature style and also strengthened the performance power of the literature in the meantime. As for the analysis of the time and space art in the works of Hemingway has very important value in Hemingway's research, through the research of time and space art, we can be better to comprehend Hemingway's literature creations.This text analyses the time and space art of the story level and recount level of Hemingway's novels, and summarized Hemingway's time and space view in his creations and the usage of time and space method. The paper tries to attain deeper comprehension to Hemingway's novels .In the time and space art of story level, I think, Hemingway shows a kind of circular time view in the literary creations. That is to say, Hemingway's style of writing, the time of story level shows unchangeable features of moving in cycles, year by year, day after day. Time is imagined for the system of circulation and anyone is closed in an endless circulating circle which has no exit. In this time system, it is impossible for people to acquire any meaningful existence by making endless circulatory moving inside the circle. What this kind of circulation in time maintains a kind of unchangeable condition and people can do nothing in the time circulation, it makes Hemingway's novel appear fatalistic tragic ideology. However, the circulation of tragic life that can't be got away from isn't the only topic that Hemingway wants to express in his novels. In the time circulating view, Hemingway's more affirmative view is eternity beyond circulation. This is just the sublimation of Hemingway's novel theme, and a light in the dark of tragic ideology .The space change of the story level in Hemingway's novels is not the simple conversion of space scene either. Through the spatial dynamic state variety, the atmosphere which covers in the story surroundings also changes immediately and the meaning expressed by it is also converted. Hemingway usually combines the nations and cities he loved with some region ideas closely, as a result it has the special organization towards the region and space ideas in his works. For example , France stands for wilderness world of lacking emotion , is a degenerative symbol; Spain then represents the world that the complicated emotions relate to, is the symbol of simple and treatment. The story scene changes from France to Spain of, expresses from degeneracy to restoration change, and the hero Jack in the novel The Sun Also Rises complicated change from the impractical romanticism to realism .Concerning the space change in the story level of the novel, I mainly analyzed the two meanings represented by the scenes of the road and the river, plain and high mountain in the novels of Hemingway. In the Farewell to Arms, the road and the river are used as transportation body, the change between them expressed particular meanings. The road represents hopeless and emptiness , and marching in the road usually means false march forward, this kind of march walk towards the death, but contrary of, marching in the river represents life, represents the arrival of new hope, represents recovery of human nature. Hence the change from road to river expressed from death to rebirth , from hopeless to hope. The conversion from plain to high mountains equally expressed particular meanings in Hemingway's novels. Marching towards high mountains symbolizes tendency of mankind pursues themselves perfect, from the customs to surmount, symbolizes spirit beyond materials .In the time and space art of narrative level, I think, Hemingway adopted time perspective technique about the time in his long novels, this kind of technique refers to add author's thought , emotion and comprehension to the thing he has while he creates to the time that the novel describes the happening of the story, and using the comprehension after the event takes place to add and illustrate the circumstance in hour of occurrence of the story, or evaluate the character's state of the story occurrence. On the concrete perspective usage, the usage of Hemingway's perspective method has an important means of carrying out in his novels and that is the variety of tense. Using the present tense among the past tense expresses that the author adds and comprehends the situation through recalling and clairvoyance. Let the reader know well the affairs in the story more to the meaning that the author produce, also can go deep into the affairs that the overall comprehension that the novel describes . In the meantime, Hemingway doesn't only add the circumstance by the author's clairvoyance in the novel and sometimes the person of novel will also act as the corpus of time perspective and recall previous affairs, hence "recount" is also becoming an important means of time perspective method. Hemingway expands the story to the outside of time, location and characters of the description through "recount" , come to the complexity that Hemingway has never tried before. Another important means of carrying out perspective method is the control of recollection affairs. Generally speaking, be apart from an observation more far in the space, the scenery is more small. Time perspective method is the same , be apart from more long ago now, the detail which saves in memory is also less .Hemingway also adopted the same technique in his long novel creations, the process made novel give reader a kind of clear stereoscopic feeling.In the space art of narrative level, Hemingway availably used " the space turn of time" this modern typical description technique. In Hemingway's novels, " the space turn of time" mainly be carried out by two kinds of means, that is the change of "apposition" and descriptive speed. "Apposition" is the change of different behaviors which occur in the same time , this kind of change can break time continuous and make the development of story produce a kind of state of situation. Equally through the change of descriptive speed, can also make a function of "the space turn of time". Hemingway adopts a kind of skill which suddenly lowers recount speed in the novel and solidify time in the moment, description of seeing, listening, thinking and feeling in detail in short several seconds, make this short several seconds become enrich stereoscopic, create space sense.In conclusion, time and space art still has great quantities of places to study in Hemingway's long novel creations. To study this kind of time and space art which embeds in the Hemingway's novels, not only can make us comprehend Hemingway's works better, but also make us go deep into studying literature at the meantime, and enriched the study to theories of literature. We can say, the time and space art is not simply Hemingway's personal special features, but also a topic of deserving studying in the whole literature system.