'The Gallantry of the Aging Machine': Ernest Hemingway's Colonel Cantwell and Masculine Aging in Modernist Literature

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Lisa Tyler

Polish Journal of English Studies, Vol.9(2), pp.57-76

2023

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Title: 'The Gallantry of the Aging Machine': Ernest Hemingway's Colonel Cantwell and Masculine Aging in Modernist Literature
Author/Creator: Lisa Tyler
Publication Details: Polish Journal of English Studies, Vol.9(2), pp.57-76
Annotation: Places Across the River and into the Trees in the context of "decline narratives" and discusses how "ageism" dominates the novel's critical reception and how Hemingway, through his semi-autobiographical protagonist, aimed to defy bodily decay and forestall the apparent death of literary modernism. Surveys scholarly readings of masculine aging in modernist literature—the literature of youthful rebellion, that is—and Hemingway's personal concerns about the ticking clock. Notes how Hemingway extended the theme of aging masculinity in subsequent projects, including The Old Man and the Sea, The Garden of Eden, and A Moveable Feast.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015213298603691