THE "LOST GENERATION" AND THE GENERATION OF LOSS: ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S MATERIALITY OF ABSENCE AND "THE SUN ALSO RISES"

• Published in: Modern fiction studies Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 744 - 765
• Main Author: Tomkins, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press for the Department of English, Purdue University 01.12.2008; Johns Hopkins University Press
• Subjects: American literature; Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941); Creation myths; Expatriates; French language; Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Impotence; Laughter; Love; Modernist art; Narratives; Neys; Novels; Penis; Statues; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)

This article discusses how Hemingway's depiction of the sexually mutilated WWI veteran and his inverted generic analogue, the cowboy hero, grows out of modernism's vexed enthrallment with material things. The Sun Also Rises explores the impotence of the post-war American, a figure whose lo...