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The Critical Reception of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (Hardcover)
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The Critical Reception of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
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Changing critical views of Hemingway's great novel of the Lost
Generation, from publication to the present. In the eight decades
since its publication, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, like a
Rorschach blot, has measured not only critics' opinions of
Hemingway but also the critical temper of the times. An initial
reviewer saw thebook as a satire on American expatriates, an
unflattering portrait of wastrels and a nymphomaniac wandering
Europe. Other critics of the time saw it as a reflection of
post-First World War malaise, inscribing for history the
LostGeneration - those critics, that is, who took it as a serious
literary effort and did not simply dismiss it as pornographic, as
Hemingway's own parents did. Since then the novel has been
interpreted, variously, as a study of an impotent man's existential
dilemma, re-read as a modern-day version of the Fisher King myth,
attacked by feminist critics as the macho diatribe of a misogynist,
and, most recently, seen as a study of gender roles and the
performanceof masculinity. There is no other book that surveys the
entire span of The Sun Also Rises criticism, documents the
fashionable waves in which criticism has traveled, and points out
how each age interprets the novel to suititself, reflecting the
cultural concerns of the moment. Peter Hays is Emeritus Professor
of English at the University of California, Davis.
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