Hemingway's genders

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Ernest Hemingway has long been regarded as a fiercely heterosexual writer who advocated and embodied an exaggerated masculinity. This witty and intelligent book, the first to focus exclusively on gender in Hemingway's writing, presents a new view of the author, demonstrating that issues of gender and sexuality are more complex and subtle in his work than has ever been imagined. Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes reread the Hemingway Text - his published and unpublished writing and what is known about his life - and show that gender was one of his conscious preoccupations. They explore the anguish and uncertainty beneath the blunt facade of Papa Hemingway; they examine a range of Hemingway's fictional women in such works as The Sun Also Rises and For whom the Bell Tolls and suggest that his best representations of women take on attributes of gender commonly viewed as male; they discuss how lesbianism, sex changes, and miscegenation appear in Hemingway's early and late writing; and they analyze examples of homosexual desire among boys and men in Hemingway's stories of bullfighters and soldiers.

subjects: Masculinity in literature,  Sex role in literature,  History and criticism,  Criticism and interpretation,  American Psychological fiction,  Masculinite (psychologie),  Masculinite dans la litterature,  Roman,  Sekseverschillen,  Critique et interpretation,  Role selon le sexe,  Dans la litterature,  Sex in literature,  Sexualita˜t,  Geschlechterrolle,  Role selon le sexe dans la litterature,  Ma˜nnlichkeit,  Gender identity in literature,  Identite sexuelle dans la litterature,  Identite (psychologie),  Prosa,  Identité (psychologie),  Dans la littérature,  Männlichkeit,  Masculinité (psychologie),  Identité sexuelle dans la littérature,  Rôle selon le sexe,  Sexualität,  Masculinité dans la littérature,  Critique et interprétation,  Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature,  Hemingway, ernest, 1899-1961,  New York Times reviewed

People: Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)