- Title
- "The Sort of Thing You Should Not Admit": Ernest Hemingway s Aesthetic of Emotional Restraint
- Author/Creator
- Thomas Strychacz
- Publication Details
- Boys Don’t Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S., pp.141-166
- Annotation
- Challenges the popular understanding of Hemingway as a traditional masculinist, contending that masculinist theory emerged to assist men in redefining masculinity in the changing professional world of the early 1900s. Strychacz argues that Hemingway s style is actually marked by powerful rhetorical transformations and emotional swings. Offers a close reading of Death in the Afternoon, focusing on descriptions of horses dying in the bullring, arguing that Hemingway s emphasis on emotional excess and disarray conveys the real thing. Concludes that critics preoccupation with navigating their own gender identity has obscured true interpretations of Hemingway s style and meaning over the years.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015131941403691
Book chapter
"The Sort of Thing You Should Not Admit": Ernest Hemingway s Aesthetic of Emotional Restraint
Boys Don’t Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S., pp.141-166
2002
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
Metrics
42 Record Views