| Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood Contributor(s): Eby, Carl P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791440036 ISBN-13: 9780791440032 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: Critics have long acknowledged Hemingway's lifelong erotic obsession with hair, but this book is the first to explain in a theoretically coherent manner why Hemingway was a fetishist and why we should care. Without reducing Hemingway's art to his psychosexuality, Eby demonstrates that when the fetish appears in Hemingway's fiction, it always does so with a retinue of attendant fantasies, themes, and symbols that are among the most prominent and important in Hemingway's work. "Eby stands out as a particularly fine writer who has brought unfamiliar Hemingway materials together in creative conjunctions to illuminate the classic works. His critical savvy and sense of humor are very refreshing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| LCCN: 98006223 |
| Series: Suny Psychoanalysis and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.2" W x 9.28" (1.38 lbs) 366 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Hemingway's Fetishism, Carl Eby demonstrates in painstaking detail and with stunning new archival evidence how fetishism was crucial to the construction and negotiation of identity and gender in both Hemingway's life and his fiction. Critics have long acknowledged Hemingway's lifelong erotic obsession with hair, but this book is the first to explain in a theoretically coherent manner why Hemingway was a fetishist and why we should care. Without reducing Hemingway's art to his psychosexuality, Eby demonstrates that when the fetish appears in Hemingway's fiction, it always does so with a retinue of attendant fantasies, themes, and symbols that are among the most prominent and important in Hemingway's work. |