The \u3cem\u3eMa\u3c/em\u3e of Hemingway: Interval, Absence, and Japanese Esthetics in \u3cem\u3eIn Our Time\u3c/em\u3e

Applies the Japanese esthetic of ma to Hemingway’s prose style, specifically analyzing “Indian Camp” and “Big Two-Hearted River.” Contrary to Western scholarship, Loots argues that Hemingway’s theory of omission should be approached not as a puzzle to be filled in but as “gesturing toward the meaningful yet unnamable nothingness of the interval.” Loots interprets the woods in In Our Time as a “representation of the text’s sublime nothingness” and urges scholars to address the silences and absences in Hemingway’s text as meaningful in themselves