Reading Desire Contributor(s): Moddelmog, Debra A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801436044 ISBN-13: 9780801436048 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1999 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Dewey: 813 |
LCCN: 99030772 |
Lexile Measure: 1600 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.04 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Whether revered for his masculinity, condemned as an icon of machismo, or perceived as possessing complex androgynous characteristics, Ernest Hemingway is acknowledged to be one of the most important twentieth-century American novelists. For Debra A. Moddelmog, the intense debate about the nature of his identity reveals how critics' desires give shape to an author's many guises. In her provocative book, Moddelmog interrogates Hemingway's persona and work to show how our perception of the writer is influenced by society's views on knowledge, power, and sexuality. She believes that recent attempts to reinvent Hemingway as man and as artist have been circumscribed by their authors' investment in heterosexist ideology; she seeks instead to situate Hemingway's sexual identity in the interface between homosexuality and heterosexuality. Moddelmog looks at how sexual orientation, gender, race, nationality, able-bodiedness--and the intersections of these elements--contribute to the formation of desire. Ultimately, she makes a far-reaching and suggestive argument about multiculturalism and the canons of American letters, asserting that those who teach literature must be aware of the politics and ethics of the authorial constructions they promote. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moddelmog, Debra A.: - Debra A. Moddelmog is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University. She is the author of Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-Century Fiction. |