The Sun Also Rises , Ernest Hemingway (1926)

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

2. 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 Hemingway, SAR

3. Americanism and the Expatriots • America in the 1920s • Ku Klux Klan • White supremacy, anti-Catholicism, and anti-Semitism • Right wing reaction Hemingway, SAR

4. 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 Hemingway, SAR

5. 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 Hemingway, SAR