Reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

About this book

The first volume in an important series of guides to the works of Ernest Hemingway The Reading Hemingway series of guides to Ernest Hemingways major works of ction short stories and novels are written for students fellow teachers and other readers who share an interest in the works of one of Americas and indeed the worlds outstanding writers. The books in this series will gloss or annotate page by page word by word if necessary like a good guidebook to a city or country. These books will not tell Hemingway readers what to think and feel about an action a character or a place. Rather the guides point out features and details possibly overlooked or misunderstood by the visitor. These books side by side with Hemingways books may enrich ones reading tours.from the Foreword Designed as an exercise in close reading this first volume in the series is grounded in narrative and aesthetic concerns addressing history local knowledge actual and symbolic landscape and inscape and every aspect of the seven-eighths of the story that lies beneath the surfacethe submerged iceberg of the fiction. Author H. R. Stoneback equips the reader to sound its depths and take full measure of the novels allusiveness indirection and understatement. Navigating the labyrinthine text of The Sun Also Rises Stoneback negotiates its intricate complex and interconnected passages and leads the reader ultimately to the center of Hemingways vision.