Ernest Hemingway: "Isn t It Pretty to Think So?"

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Michael Dunne

Calvinist Humor in American Literature, pp.128-144

2007

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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