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The Bullring as Source and Symbol in the Major Works of Ernest Hemingway

This study of the bullfight in Hemingway's life and in his art demonstrates the values by which Hemingway lived and wrote. In Death in the Afternoon he pursues reality with courage and integrity, with grace under pressure. The bullring enhances the light and earth imagery and reinforces the structure and themes of Hemingway's major novels.

Date: August 1971

Creator: Grasmick, Janice Katherine

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Hemingway and the Aristotelian Tragedy

Because Ernest Hemingway's four major novels are often referred to as tragedies, these novels are checked against Aristotle's criteria for tragedy. "The Sun Also Rises" is not an Aristotelian tragedy because the wounding of Jake Barnes precedes the events in the novel; it is, instead, an extended tragic epilogue. "A Farewell to Arms" is a modern anti-romantic tragedy of irony, a story of disillusionment which does not provide cathartic relief. The most nearly tragic in structure, "The Old Man a… more

Date: May 1974

Creator: Kromi, Edythe D.