Hemingway The Sun Also Rises

Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.: A Rotten Way to Be Wounded. The Tragicomedy of "The Sun Also Rises". New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris Peter Lang Vlg. 1990. ISBN: 978-0-8204-1282-5
A Rotten Way to Be Wounded: The Tragicomedy of 'The Sun Also Rises' is the kind of close textual study of The Sun Also Rises that Hemingway scholars have recently been calling for. Careful textual analysis and an exploration of Hemingway's use of literary allusion as a narrative technique combine to offer many unorthodox and thought-provoking interpretations of character portrayal, narrative movement, and plot. While the ideas presented may be bold and innovative, this is a well-documented, scholarly work which will provide many points of departure for others trying to read between the lines of Hemingway's deceptively simple prose.

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Ghamsharick, Emal: So, what will we be doing today? Traveling in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, Februar 2008, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638914356
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, printed single-sided, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut), 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In 1926 a man named Ernest Hemingway wrote a book. It was called The Sun Also Rises (as it also travels) and it recounts a recreational journey undertaken by the protagonist, Jake Barnes, and his companions. Jake is very fond of traveling. He is also very fond of getting drunk and seeing people and animals hurt each other. It is hard to tell which he favors more, since he travels in order to get drunk and see violence, although it would not be necessary, since violence and alcohol can be encountered at selected locations all across the world. Traveling must therefore have a more vital function in Jake's life.As multitudinous as Jake's motivations may have been, there seems to be one constant element that can be named as the driving force behind all of Jake's travels. This element is escape. Escape from a dismal and boring life in his home country and in Paris, escape from happiness in Spain and with (or without) Brett, or escape from his war experiences. Since it is such a fundamental part of his life, he, as the narrator, also portrays the other characters as fugitives from themselves and from others. In order to verify this statement, I will examine Jake's possible reasons for expatriation in general. Then I will try to further examine the individual travel stops that Jake visits during his journey. I will show that each location has a different meaning to him, although the guiding theme remains. Then again I will attempt to shine a light on the driving powers behind the restlessness of the three central characters: Jake, Brett and Robert. Although the narrator does show some insight into their motivations, there are still deeper ones that he might not realize because they are also inherent in himself.

NEUBUCH! 2008. 36 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 2 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V84186

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Grawe, Michael: Expatriate American Authors in Paris - Disillusionment with the American Lifestyle as Reflected in Selected Works of Ern, GRIN VERLAG, Juli 2008, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640119576
Master Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3 (A), University of Paderborn, 73 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: M.A. THESIS in American Literature , abstract: Paris has traditionally called to the American heart, beginning with the arrival of Benjamin Franklin in 1776 in an effort to win the support of France for the colonies' War of Independence. Franklin would remain in Paris for nine years, returning to Philadelphia in 1785. Then, in the first great period of American literature before 1860, literary pioneers such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne were all to spend time in the French capital. Henry James, toward the close of the nineteenth century, was the first to create the image of a talented literary artist who was ready to foreswear his citizenship. From his adopted home in England he traveled widely through Italy and France, living in Paris for two years. There he became close friends with another literary expatriate, Edith Wharton, who made Paris her permanent home. Between them they gave the term expatriate a high literary polish at the turn of the century, and their prestige was undeniable. They were the 'in' cosmopolitans, sought out by traveling Americans, commented on in the press, the favored guests of scholars, as well as men and women of affairs.This thesis investigates the mass expatriation of Americans to Paris during the 1920s, and then focuses on selected works by two of the expatriates: Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926) and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925). The specific emphasis is on disillusionment with the American lifestyle as reflected in these novels. The two books have been chosen because both are prominent examples of the literary criticism that Americans were directing at their homeland from abroad throughout the twenties.

NEUBUCH! 2008. 100 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 7 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V42048

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Herman, Allison: Self-Mythology in Hemingway and Fitzgerald The Quest for Immortality and Identity, VDM VERLAG DR. MÜLLER, Juni 2011, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3639361199
Literary analysis is often concerned with understanding the protagonist and how he shapes the world he inhabits. But when this central figure is presented by a first-person narrator, we must take into account how the protagonist's actions and views are influenced and wholly altered by the narrator's subjectivity. This narrator must be understood as a primary character who is concerned with vicariously crafting his own self mythology. This work aims to explore the narrative function in two seminal works by authors Ernest Hemingway and F.Scott Fitzgerald-- The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby--in order to uncover the deeper impulses which drive the storytelling process, namely the narrator's desire to craft a mythological identity for the protagonist (his double). Drawing upon psychologists, philosophers and mythologists such as Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche and Campbell, we will explore how the narrator uses this double to bargain for his own immortality. And in doing so, we will examine how the author offers his own defense against mortality. This work provides insight for both scholars of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and students of philosophy and literature.

NEUBUCH! 2011. 76 S. 220 mm x 150 mm x 5 mm

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