Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises A Casebook

by Wagner-Martin, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780195145731
• ISBN10: 0195145739
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Still the most popular of Hemingway's books, The Sun also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britons in Paris after World War I. The text provides a way for discussions of war, sexuality, personal angst, and national identity to be linked inextricablywith the stylistic traits of modern writing. This Casebook, edited by one of Hemingway's most eminent scholars, presents the best critical essays on the novel to be published in the last half century. These essays address topics as diverse as sexuality, religion, alcoholism, gender, Spanish culture,economics, and humor. The volume also includes an interview with Hemingway conducted by George Plimpton.

Author Biography

Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is past president of the Hemingway Foundation & Society and is the editor of A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway (OUP, 2000).

Table of Contents

Introduction

An Interview with Ernest Hemingway

The Death of Love in The Sun Also Rises

Brett Ashley as New Woman in The Sun Also Rises

Performance Art: Jake Barnes and "Masculine" Signification in The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway's Morality of Compensation

"Sign the Wire with Love": The Morality of Surplus in The Sun Also Rises

What's Funny in The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway, the Corrida, and Spain

Alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Wine and Roses Perspective on the Lost Generation

Contradictory Bodies in The Sun Also Rises

Whiteness and the Rejected Other in The Sun Also Rises

Suggested Reading

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