- Title
- Straight, Pure, and Natural: Spiritualization and Penile Prostheses in Hemingway s The Sun Also Rises
- Author/Creator
- Aaron Shaheen
- Publication Details
- Modern Fiction Studies, Vol.65(1), pp.152-176
- Annotation
- Posits that Jake seeks out Pedro Romero to serve as his sexual stand-in (prosthetic supplementation) in his relationship with Brett, further arguing that Hemingway s prose style functions as a metaphorical prosthesis for Jake s physical and emotional condition. Shaheen situates the novel s treatment of sexuality within its social and historical contexts, focusing on contemporary diagnoses and cures for hysteria and other female disorders. Concludes that Jake s postwar mechanized perspective and appreciation of the young matador s skill in the bullring lead him to view Romero as the ideal cure for Brett s hysteria.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132133903691
Journal article
Straight, Pure, and Natural: Spiritualization and Penile Prostheses in Hemingway s The Sun Also Rises
Modern Fiction Studies, Vol.65(1), pp.152-176
04/01/2019
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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