Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism.(Book review)

From: The Hemingway Review | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Ebersole, Jamie | Copyright information

Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism. By Richard Fantina, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 206 pp. $65.00.

For nearly three decades, scholars have been busy rethinking how masculinity operates in Hemingway's life' and work, replacing the celebrated macho persona with a Hemingway motivated by various psychosexual desires. Yet, as Richard Fantina argues in his important new book Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism, "[a]lthough many critics now readily dismiss t...

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