The Sun Also Rises (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• Donald A. Daiker, "The Affirmative Conclusion of The Sun Also Rises," in Modern American Fiction: Form and Function, edited by Thomas Daniel Young, Louisiana State University Press, 1989, pp. 39-56.

  Daiker asserts that a close reading of Book III reveals that The Sun Also Rises is an affimnative book.

• Scott Donaldson, "Humor in The Sun Also Rises," in New Essays on The Sun Also Rises, edited by Linda Wagner-Martin, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 19-41.

  Revealing that Hemingway started his writing career trying to be funny, Donaldson discusses the author's use of humor in The Sun Also Rises.

• Barry Gross, "Dealing with Robert Cohn," in Hemingway in Italy and Other Essays, edited by Robert W. Lewis, Praeger, 1990, pp. 123-30.

  Gross discusses the depiction of Robert Cohn and the issue of anti-Semitism in The Sun Also Rises.

• Robert E. Flemming, "The Importance of Count Mippipopolous: Creating the Code Hero," in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer, 1988, pp. 69-75.

  Flemming contends that the Count may be an early prototype in Hemingway's fiction of the character type known as the "code hero."

• Ernest Hemingway, in Death in the Afternoon, Touchstone Books, 1996.

  Contains Hemingway's own discussion of his favorite sport — bullfighting. The book explains the ritual and provides pictures.

• Allen, Josephs, 'Toreo: The Moral Axis of The Sun Also Rises," in Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, edited by James Nagel, G.K. Hall & Co., 1995, pp. 126-40.

  Josephs explores how and why the art of toreo lies at the heart of The Sun Also Rises.

• Albert Kwan, "The Sun Also Rises and On the Road," at http://www.atlantic.net/˜gagne/pol/ontheroad.html, 1998.

  World War II created a group of artists with similar disillusions to those of the Lost Generation. This group came to be know as the Beat Generation and in Albert Kwan's essay Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac are compared.

• Kenneth S. Lynn, in Hemingway, Fawcett Books, 1988.

  In an attempt to be objective about Hemingway, Kenneth Lynn is seen by some fans as a bit harsh in this biographical account. It is an unusually balanced work for a Hemingway biography and it is not afraid to reveal some of the darker things about the famous writer.

• James Nagel, "Brett and the Other Women in 'The Sun Also Rises'," in The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway, edited by Scott Donaldson, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 87-108.

  In this discussion of the women in The Sun Also Rises, Nagel agues that, in order to come to terms with his emotional devastation, Jake tells his story — a cathartic reiteration that focuses on Brett and the women who surround her.

• Kathleen Nichols, "The Morality of Asceticism in The Sun Also Rises: A Structural Reinterpretation," in Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman, 1978, pp. 321-30.

  Nichols contends that the solution Jake finds to his problems might be called a secularized morality based on the Catholic ideal of asceticism.

• Sibbie O'Sullivan, "Love and Friendship/Man and Woman in The Sun Also Rises," in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 44,1988, pp. 76-97.

  O'Sullivan proposes that the novel may be read as a story about the cautious belief in the survival of the two most basic components of any human relationship: love and friendship.

• Michael S. Reynolds, "The Sun in Its Time: Recovering the Historical Context," in New Essays on The Sun Also Rises, edited by Linda Wagner-Martin, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 43-64.

  Arguing that The Sun Also Rises is "anchored in time," Reynolds places the novel in its historical context.

• — , in The Sun Also Rises: A Novel of the Twenties, Twayne Publishers, 1988.

  A book-length study of the themes, characters, and symbolism of the novel.

• Linda Wagner-Martin, "Introduction," in New Essays on 'The Sun Also Rises', edited by Linda Wagner-Martin, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 1-18.

  Wagner-Martin discusses various biographical, historical and textual issues in this introduction to a volume of essays on The Sun Also Rises.

• Jane E. Wilson, "Good Old Harris in The Sun Also Rises," in Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, edited by James Nagel, G.K. Hall & Co., 1995, pp. 185-90.

  Wilson discusses the fishing trip to Burguete and argues that Jake's relationship with Harris is the key to understanding the meaning of the episode.