Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity
In the Garden of the Uncanny
Authors: Brown, Stephen Gilbert
Free Preview- Draws attention to Hemingway’s trauma narratives as examples of post-traumatic survival models
- Foregrounds a unified wound theory drawing from Lyotard, De Man, Carruth, Luckhurst and also Freud
- Illuminates Hemingway’s contribution to psychoanalysis and literature
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- About this book
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Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny is at once a model of literary interpretation and a psycho-critical reading of Hemingway’s life and art. This book is a provocative and theoretically sophisticated inquiry into the traumatic origins of the creative impulse and the dynamics of identity formation in Hemingway. Building on a body of wound-theory scholarship, the book seeks to reconcile the tensions between opposing Hemingway camps, while moving beyond these rivalries into a broader analysis of the relationship between trauma, identity formation and art in Hemingway.
- About the authors
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Stephen Gilbert Brown is Professor of English and Barrick Scholar of Modern Comparative Literature at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, where he teaches courses in Hemingway, Joyce and Proust. He is the author of The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime (2004); Socrates and Freire: Ancient Rhetoric/ Radical Praxis (2011) and the award-winning Words in the Wilderness (2000).
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“Stephen Gilbert Brown draws from his colossal knowledge of literature and psychology and blazes a new trail through Hemingway’s life and work. Brown is particularly nimble when analyzing the less prominent works, the dark corners of Hemingway’s career, which he mines to yield fascinating discoveries. Elegantly written and convincingly argued, Hemingway, Trauma, and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny becomes an indispensable text in future discussions of Hemingway and the trauma that underlies his work.” (Mark Cirino, Associate Professor of English, University of Evansville, USA)
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction: Entering the Garden—The Genealogy of a Reading
Pages 3-14
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Eden and Its Discontents
Pages 15-32
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The Mother of Invention: The Birth of the Twin
Pages 33-71
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Sisters of the Forest
Pages 73-104
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The Forest of Four Wounds: Hemingway and the Sawyer’s Daughter
Pages 105-136
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity
- Book Subtitle
- In the Garden of the Uncanny
- Authors
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- Stephen Gilbert Brown
- Series Title
- American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-19230-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-19230-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-19229-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 306
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