Hemingway's Quarrel With Androgyny

By Mark Spilka

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803241275
• ISBN13: 9780803241275
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"