- Title
- Ernest Hemingway: Knighthood In Our Time
- Author/Creator
- Kim Moreland
- Publication Details
- The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature: Twain, Adams, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, pp.161-200
- Annotation
- On the influence of the medieval tradition, particularly chivalry and courtly love, in The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and into the Trees, and The Old Man and the Sea. Argues that in their attempt to adapt knightly codes to the modern world, Hemingway s male protagonists fail miserably, sinking into self-pity and cynicism. Reads Hemingway s reactions against the horrors of modern warfare, fascination with the ritualized bullring, and depiction of idealized female characters because of his romanticized nostalgia for the Middle Ages.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015132113903691
Book chapter
Ernest Hemingway: Knighthood In Our Time
The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature: Twain, Adams, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, pp.161-200
1996
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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