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Title: Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Lecture II


1
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Lecture II
  • Ramón Saldívar
  • Stanford University

2
Irony as a principle of structure in SAR
  • Modernity and Irony
  • Irony defined
  • Saying one thing while meaning another
  • The warping of a statement by the pressure of
    context
  • The Iceberg Principle
  • Nobody ever knows anything SAR, 35

3
Irony as a strategy of containment in SAR
  • certain injuries or imperfections are a subject
    of merriment while remaining quite serious for
    the person possessing them, SAR 35
  • The Simplicity of language
  • The Simplicity of meaning
  • The Irony of the Not Said
  • The (Political) Unconscious

4
Lady Brett Ashley and Hemingways Hairy Chest
  • Hemingways stereotypical machismo
  • Nobody could be that masculine. --Zelda
    Fitzgerald
  • "Come out from behind that false hair on your
    chest, Ernest. We all know you." -- Max Eastman
  • Maybe we were androgynous. -- Mary Hemingway

5
Max Eastman
6
Brett Ashley and the Male Critics
  • Allen Tate, hard-boiled
  • Theodore Bardake, a woman devoid of womanhood
  • Jackson Benson, a female who never becomes a
    woman
  • Edmond Wilson, an exclusively destructive
    force
  • And John Aldridge, a compulsive bitch

7
Bretts Gender Roles
  • On one hand, she is a femme fatale dangerous to
    men
  • On the other, she frequently lapses into the role
    of redemptive woman, trying to save men through
    her sexuality

8
Sexual Politics in SAR
  • Masculine eroticism confines women
  • Loss of masculine power and authority
  • Leads to loss of the right to exercise control

9
Money, Morality, Sexuality
  • Jakes market theory of emotions
  • Women made such swell friends, SAR, 152
  • Enjoying living was learning to get your moneys
    worth, SAR, 152
  • The world was a good place to buy in, SAR, 152

10
Love, Sex and Bullfighting
  • Jakes and Bretts gender role reversal
  • the holding of his purity of line through the
    maximum of exposure SAR, p. 172
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