A favorite in high school and college classrooms around the world, it has also, as this volume attests, persisted in generating a wide range of critical opinions.Įach Critical Insights is divided into four sections:Īn Introduction – The book and the authorĮdited and with an introduction by Keith Newlin, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, this volume brings together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary criticism on Hemingway's masterpiece. Newlin's introduction describes how Hemingway revised his early draft of the novel, refining his initial inspiration-a trip he had taken to Pamplona with his wife and friends-into a complex, tightly woven story of implication and omission.įor readers studying The Sun Also Rises for the first time, a quartet of new essays provide valuable introductory material. The essays aim to provide a background to the title and author that is an historical, cultural, and biographical foundation for the reader. With its vivid characters and spare, laconic prose, it effectively captures the despair, disillusionment, and muted hope of a generation struggling to find meaning in a world torn apart by war. Though Hemingway went on to write five more novels and dozens of short stories before winning the Nobel Prize in 1953, The Sun Also Rises, his second novel, endures as a quintessential American classic. Overnight, its author was acclaimed as the spokesman of what Gertrude Stein called the 'lost generation' young men and women began modeling themselves after the novel's tough-talking, dissolute characters and its revolutionary prose style spawned countless imitations and, after these had worn thin, parodies. The Sun Also Rises has cast a long shadow over American literature ever since its publication in 1926. A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to The Sun Also Rises and the critical discussions surrounding it.

This volume brings together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary criticism on Hemingway's masterpiece.

And the sun also rises