Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge Of Courage (1895) And Ernest Hemingway’s “in Another Country” (1927): A Comparative Study

Résumé: This dissertation is a comparative study which intends to compare Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage (1895) and Ernest Hemingway’s “In Another Country” (1927). Our basic attempt in this inquiry is to explore the literary affinities between these literary works and to examine the writers’ experience and observation of war in two periods of time, namely the American Civil War and the World War I. Our study falls into two main chapters. In the first chapter, we are involved with reading the two works as heteroglossic texts, in which we made an appeal to Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of Heteroglossia. Our focal point was on the multiplicity of perspectives dominated in the two selected works. The second chapter is about the analysis of the concept of Chronotope in both works. We focused on the temporal and spatial indicators that are presented. This developed examination highlights the main points where the two works intersect and through which one literary work is regarded as a response to the other. Also, it approaches an alternate analogy between the two authors in their concern on describing the effects of war on the individual, both physically and psychologically. We come to the conclusion that these respective works are dialogic in terms of points of view, as well as the representation of time and space

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