Document Type
Unpublished Paper
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
This essay, a though-experiment, explores the value of reading literary texts (with the example of Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants") from the point of view of epistemic, nonepistemic and nonseeing. Epistemic seeing is defined as seeing with "belief-content" nonepistemic seeing without it. The technique is to examine each example of the word "seeing" (or one of the members of its family, "look, watch," "blink") and let it "lead" you to the object, its contest, and implications in the story as a whole..
Recommended Citation
Washington, Gene, ""Hills Like White Elephants": Epistemic, Nonepistemic and Nonseeing" (2015). English Faculty Publications. Paper 642.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/english_facpub/642
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