{"product_id":"hemingways-theaters-of-masculinity","title":"Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity","description":"In this provocative book, Thomas Strychacz pursues an entirely new approach to the question of masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's work. He begins with a close reading of Hemingway's famous story \u003cem\u003eThe Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber\u003c\/em\u003e and continues through the story cycle \u003ci\u003eIn Our Time; \u003c\/i\u003ethe short story \u003cem\u003eThe Undefeated\u003c\/em\u003e; the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea; \u003c\/i\u003eand the nonfiction books \u003ci\u003eDeath in the Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGreen Hills of Africa. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging the traditional wisdom that Hemingway fashions a quintessentially masculine style and promotes an ideal of stoic, independent manhood, Strychacz argues that Hemingway's fiction poses masculinity as a theatrical performance. Masculinity emerges from a series of complex negotiations between male characters, readers, and cultural codes of manhood. Hemingway's \"\"masculine\"\" style should be seen as deeply rhetorical, inviting the audience to think of masculinity as a contention to be debated rather than a fact that demands acquiescence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on feminism, gender studies, and the New Men's Studies, this book casts brilliant interpretive light on Hemingway's artistry. It contributes significantly to the larger cultural discussions about the nature of masculinity while offering an analysis and critique of masculinity in Hemingway's work that greatly extends recent scholarly debates about \"\"masculine modernism.\"\" It raises the compelling question, What is \"\"modernism\"\" if \"\"masculinity\"\" is exposed as more problematic and elusive than previously suspected?","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807364923736,"sku":"9780807129258","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807129258_08ddd782-cbb2-4aaa-a770-9670bb8d640e.jpg?v=1781013674","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/hemingways-theaters-of-masculinity","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}