Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny confronts the entrenched mystique surrounding the hard drinker, bullfighter, and creator of characters steeled by their own code. Spilka stresses Hemingway's lifelong dependence on and secret identification with women, and in doing so shatters the myths of male bonding and heroic lives of "men without women." He develops the biographical, literary, and cultural implications of Hemingway's lifelong quarrel with androgyny to reveal a more psychologically complex man and writer than the mystique has allowed.
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It was inevitable that the posthumous publication of The Garden of Eden ( LJ 6/1/86) would spark new theories on Hemingway's personality. Spilka's psychological portrait follows a course similar to Kenneth Lynn's Hemingway ( LJ 7/87), who hypothesized that Ernest was subconsciously androgynous because his mother dressed him like a girl until he was two or three years old. Lynn tried to back up his argument with references to Hemingway's fiction and life, but very few swallowed it, and many even laughed. This volume appears to be a much more in-depth treatment of the issue but still requires the reader to suspend a lot of disbelief. Only for the truly broadminded.
- Michael Rogers, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Michael Rogers, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"A remarkable study of American social and family culture. . . . This book will undoubtedly open additional avenues of exploration for scholars who are interested in why Hemingway wrote as he did."--"Studies in the Novel"
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