Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook / Edition 1

by Linda Wagner-Martin

Overview

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 inextricably with 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195145748
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/17/2002
Series:	Casebooks in Criticism
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	7.76(w) x 6.28(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

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

1. Introduction2. An Interview with Ernest Hemingway, George Plimpton3. The Death of Love in The Sun Also Rises, Mark Spilka4. Brett Ashley as New Woman in The Sun Also Rises, Wendy Martin5. Performance Art: Jake Barnes and "Masculine" Signification in The Sun Also Rises, Ira Elliott6. Hemingway's Morality of Compensation, Scott Donaldson7. "Sign the Wire with Love": The Morality of Surplus in The Sun Also Rises, George Cheatham8. What's Funny in The Sun Also Rises, James Hinkle9. Hemingway, the Corrida, and Spain, Kenneth Kinnamon10. Alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Wine and Roses Perspective on the Lost Generation, Matts Djos11. Contradictory Bodies in The Sun Also Rises, Deborah A. Moddelmog12. Whiteness and the Rejected Other in The Sun Also Rises, Daniel S. Traber13. Suggested Reading