- Title
- Looking at Horses: Destructive Spectatorship in The Sun Also Rises
- Author/Creator
- Jennifer Haytock
- Publication Details
- War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway s Early Life and Writings, pp.94-112
- Annotation
- Reads Jake s and Brett s responses to the traumatic aftereffects of World War I considering Martin Harries s recent study on destructive spectatorship, which argues that facing the past, as in the biblical story of Lot s wife, poses the threat of mental and physical annihilation. Haytock concludes: For Hemingway s veterans, the horror of not being destroyed by the violence they have witnessed must be balanced with the need to remember, which itself is a dangerous activity.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015136281303691
Book chapter
Looking at Horses: Destructive Spectatorship in The Sun Also Rises
War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway s Early Life and Writings, pp.94-112
2014
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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