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Reading Desire
Debra A. Moddelmog
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Description for Reading Desire
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 210.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801486357
SKU
V9780801486357
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About Debra A. Moddelmog
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.
Reviews for Reading Desire
Hemingway studies has long needed a book like Reading Desire.
Carl P. Eby
American Literature
Carl P. Eby
American Literature