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Landscape and Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
- Author(s):
- Victoria Addis (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- American Literature, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, Masculinities in Literature
- Subject(s):
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, Masculinity, Ecocriticism, Literature, Ecology, Landscapes
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- male gaze, a farewell to arms, First World War, Ernest Hemingway, Literary landscapes, Literature and environment, Landscape, Pastoral
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M61R6N09H
- Abstract:
- Since his first works came to critical attention, Ernest Hemingway has occupied a space in the critical and cultural imagination as a definitively ‘masculine’ writer. His novels and stories focus on male narrators in difficult or extreme situations involving war, violence, and the natural world, and his critical heritage has focused on these elements and on Hemingway’s personal life in order to maintain this characterisation. Recent feminist re-evaluations of Hemingway’s works, however, have led to new readings which complicate the issue of gender identity in his works and provide a basis for renewed discussions of masculinity and the Hemingway hero. Hemingway’s landscapes provide another avenue through which to navigate these discussions, as they, like the masculinities his works explore, cannot be reduced to one layer of significance or to one gender.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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