Cassandra's Daughters - The Women in Hemingway (Hardcover)

Roger Whitlow demonstrates that the negative criticism about the women characters in Ernest Hemingway's fiction is often misguided, perhaps entirely wrong. He argues that most of Hemingway's female characters have strengths that have been consistently overlooked by critics prejudiced by earlier Hemingway criticism or influenced in their evaluations by the male characters with whom Hemingway's women often associate. For example, Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms and Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls have been uniformly typed "passive sex kittens," when, in fact, each is engaged in a serious struggle to retain her mental balance. Whitlow reexamines Hemingway's critically acclaimed "bitches" such as Brett Ashley and Margot Macomber. He ends his reassessment with a chapter devoted to the "minor" women in Hemingway's "Up in Michigan" series and other short stories.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1984
First published:	September 1984
Authors:	Roger Whitlow
Dimensions:	220 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	148
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-24488-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	0-313-24488-X
Barcode:	9780313244889

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