The critical reception of Hemingway's The sun also rises
By: Peter L. Hays
Series: Studies in American literature and culture: Literary criticism in perspective
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781571133663
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; History
Description: This History of the criticism of The Sun Also Rises shows not only how Hemingway's first major novel was received over the decades, but also how different critical modes have dominated different decades, and what, besides tenure, critics of different eras looked for in it. As such, it shows what has interested critics, how they have reinterpreted the novel, and how they have seen the characters playing different roles. Thus the novel becomes a mirror, reflecting not only Paris and Spain in 1925, but us.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: in the beginning; title: Good style, bad content, no philosophy: the initial reviews; title: The development of in-depth criticism, 1947-1961; title: The Hemingway industry takes off: the 1960s and early 1970s; title: Critical theories take hold: the mid-1970s to mid-1980s; title: More theories, many gendered, some psychological: the mid-1980s to mid-1990s; title: The continued proliferation of theory, 1995-2009.