- Title
- The Construction of Hemingway: Masculine Style and Style-less Masculinity
- Author/Creator
- Thomas Strychacz
- Publication Details
- Dangerous Masculinities: Conrad, Hemingway, and Lawrence, pp.73-103
- Annotation
- Reception-based approach focusing on the first half of the twentieth century and the theatrical nature of Hemingway s work. Strychacz treats the overriding professional anxieties present in male scholars in relation to constructions of manhood and masculine style in Hemingway s fiction. Strychacz writes: Those men demonstrated powerful yearnings for stable, self-evident, and universal masculine attributes, and for comprehensible, solid-seeming texts of masculine awakening. And they strove to maintain the hegemony of their conventional ways of thinking about manhood-fashioning even as the very nature of their professional work seemed to insist on a very different and much more problematic relationship. Gives passing commentary on the ultra-masculine Morgan of To Have and Have Not and Cantwell of Across the River and into the Trees.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015131950103691
Book chapter
The Construction of Hemingway: Masculine Style and Style-less Masculinity
Dangerous Masculinities: Conrad, Hemingway, and Lawrence, pp.73-103
2008
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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