Ernest Criticism: Finding Information on Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

A Carolina Day School Library Resource Guide

Reference Books:

! Best Bet -- Novels for Students. REF 809 TEL v.5

25-page article on Sun, including sections on theme, style, characters, context, critical overview, and criticism reprinted from various writers.

! Best Bet Critical Survey of Long Fiction. REF 809.3 Cri 2000 v.3

H section discusses his life and literature.

! Best Bet American Writers: Selected Authors. REF 810.9 AME v.2 1998

23-page article on H surveys his life and works.

The Chronology of American Literature. REF 810.9 Chr

What was hot when.

Magill's Survey of American Literature. REF 810.9 MAG v.3

Biographical material, analysis of his career, and a section on Sun.

Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. REF 810.3 Har 2002

Article on H and his works. Separate short article on Sun. Short article on Modernism.

Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. REF 810.3 Enc 2001

Articles on H and Modernism and a host of topics.

Thematic Guide to the American Novel. Ref 813.009 Ada 2002

The chapter on "Male Behavior" discusses three novels: Sun, Deliverance, and Shiloh.

Contemporary Literary Criticism, volumes 1,3, & 8. REF 809 CON

This set reproduces articles or parts of articles from journals, prefaces, and books of criticism. Check under "Hemingway." There's some good commentary about Sun, but you'll have to search through the articles.

Encyclopedia Britannica. REF 031 Bri v13

The 20th Century section of the American Literature article has a very good overview and helps to clarify how H fit into the context of the period.

American Decades: 1920-1929. REF 973.92 Ame 1996

This history book has a good short article on "Literary Modernism" in the "Arts" chapter that helps put the movement in a larger historical context. The H article deals with "the writer as celebrity" and "sports and war as literature". See if you agree with the claim in the last sentence.

So What on Earth Does That Mean, Exactly?:

A Handbook to Literature. REF 803 Har 1999

Great place to find explanations of literary terms. The entries for "Lost Generation" and "Modern" are interesting.

Literary Terms: A Dictionary. REF 803 BEC

Another good dictionary of literary terms. Look under "Modernism."

Circulating Books on Hemingway and American Literature in the 1920s
(on the Reserve Book Cart)

Readings on Ernest Hemingway. 813.09 HEM

The Cambridge Companion to Ernest Hemingway. 813.09 HEM

Hemingway: A Collection of Critical Essays. 813.09

Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. 813.09 KAZ

Twentieth-Century American Writers. 810.9 Mee 2000

Chapter on H's life and work

The Twenties Poetry and Prose: 20 Critical Essays. 810.9 LAN

Three articles are largely about H or Sun and one discusses H, Faulkner, and the 1920s.

American Writing in the Twentieth Century. 810.9 THO

Good articles on 20th century American literature. H's work is mentioned in the articles on "Caste and Class in the Novel, 1920-1950" and "The Persistence of Naturalism in the Novel."

The Hidden God: Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, and Warren. 810.93 BRO
Literary Opinion in America, volume II. 801.950 ZAB

An excellent H article by Robert Penn Warren.

Literature in America: An Anthology of Literary Criticism. 810.9 RAH

Article: "Hemingway: Gauge of Morale"

Forms of Modern Fiction: Essays. 809.304 FOR

"Ernest Hemingway: The Failure of Sensibility"

The Book That Changed My Life: Interview with National Book Award Winners and Finalists. 810.9