"He was pretty good in there today": Reviving the Macho Christ in Ernest Hemingway s "Today is Friday" and Mel Gibson s The Passion of the Christ

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Lisa Tyler

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, Vol.1(2), pp.155-169

2007

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Title: "He was pretty good in there today": Reviving the Macho Christ in Ernest Hemingway s "Today is Friday" and Mel Gibson s The Passion of the Christ
Author/Creator: Lisa Tyler
Publication Details: Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, Vol.1(2), pp.155-169
Annotation: Compares Hemingway s short story to Gibson s film, asserting that each is about the ways in which both men believed they had directly benefited from Christ s suffering. Looks at the influence of the nineteenth-century muscular Christianity movement combining faith with athleticism and their religiously conservative backgrounds on their art. Tyler concludes that both use the Crucifixion as a trope for the intense physical and mental suffering of depression and believe Christ, through his suffering, provides hope for those like themselves who despair.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015132015703691