Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises A Casebook [Hardcover]

Still the most popular of Hemingway's books,The Sun also Risescaptures 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.

1. Introduction
2. An Interview with Ernest Hemingway,George Plimpton
3. The Death of Love inThe Sun Also Rises,Mark Spilka
4. Brett Ashley as New Woman inThe Sun Also Rises,Wendy Martin
5. Performance Art: Jake Barnes and Masculine Signification inThe Sun Also Rises,Ira Elliott
6. Hemingway's Morality of Compensation,Scott Donaldson
7. Sign the Wire with Love : The Morality of Surplus inThe Sun Also Rises,George Cheatham
8. What's Funny inThe Sun Also Rises,James Hinkle
9. Hemingway, theCorrida, and Spain,Kenneth Kinnamon
10. Alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway'sThe Sun Also Rises: A Wine and Roses Perspective on the Lost Generation,Matts Djos
11. Contradictory Bodies inThe Sun Also Rises,Deborah A. Moddelmog
12. Whiteness and the Rejected Other inThe Sun Also Rises,Daniel S. Traber
13. Suggested Reading

Linda Wagner-Martinis 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 ofA Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway(OUP, l#S