- Title
- Ernest Hemingway: "Isn t It Pretty to Think So?"
- Author/Creator
- Michael Dunne
- Publication Details
- Calvinist Humor in American Literature, pp.128-144
- Annotation
- Focuses on Hemingway s use of irony in In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises. Defining Calvinist humor in terms of the limits of human behavior (the irony of Fallen Man unable to realize his own fallen state), Dunne argues that although Hemingway s fiction shifts away from religious orthodoxy, his use of the code, especially in his early fiction, serves as a secular substitute in the modern world. Examines The Doctor and the Doctor s Wife, Soldier s Home, My Old Man, A Very Short Story, and Big Two-Hearted River.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015130950703691
Book chapter
Ernest Hemingway: "Isn t It Pretty to Think So?"
Calvinist Humor in American Literature, pp.128-144
2007
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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