The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926) Ramón Saldívar Stanford University

The Lost Generation “You are all a lost generation,” Gertrude Stein “Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” A generation whose lives coincided with the opening of the 20th c and whose lives were torn by WW I War and Technology 2/25/2019 Hemingway, SAR

Americanism and the Expatriots America in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan White supremacy, anti-Catholicism, and anti-Semitism Right wing reaction 2/25/2019 Hemingway, SAR

Irony as a principle of structure in SAR Modernity and Irony Irony defined Saying one thing while meaning another The warping of a statement by the pressure of context The Iceberg Principle “Nobody ever knows anything” SAR, 35 2/25/2019 Hemingway, SAR

Irony as a strategy of containment in SAR “certain injuries or imperfections are a subject of merriment while remaining quite serious for the person possessing them,” SAR 35 The Simplicity of language The Simplicity of meaning The Irony of the Not Said The (Political) Unconscious 2/25/2019 Hemingway, SAR