Reading Desire : In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway / Debra A. Moddelmog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moddelmog, Debra A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Criticism and interpretation.

Desire in literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature--United States.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 189 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Whether revered for his masculinity, condemned as an icon of machismo, or perceived as possessing complex androgynous characteristics, Ernest Hemingway is acknowledged to be one of the most important twentieth-century American novelists. For Debra A. Moddelmog, the intense debate about the nature of his identity reveals how critics' desires give shape to an author's many guises. In her provocative book, Moddelmog interrogates Hemingway's persona and work to show how our perception of the writer is influenced by society's views on knowledge, power, and sexuality. She believes that recent attempts to reinvent Hemingway as man and as artist have been circumscribed by their authors' investment in heterosexist ideology; she seeks instead to situate Hemingway's sexual identity in the interface between homosexuality and heterosexuality. Moddelmog looks at how sexual orientation, gender, race, nationality, able-bodiedness-and the intersections of these elements-contribute to the formation of desire. Ultimately, she makes a far-reaching and suggestive argument about multiculturalism and the canons of American letters, asserting that those who teach literature must be aware of the politics and ethics of the authorial constructions they promote.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Reading Hemingway Mter the Author's Death and Return

2. The Desire for and of the Author: Reconstructing Hemingway

3. Casting Out Forbidden Desires from The Garden of Eden: Capitalism and the Production of Hemingway

4. Re-Embodying Hemingway's Fiction and Life

5. Critical Multiculturalism, Canonized Authors, and Desire

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501728907

1501728903

OCLC:

1132225117