Lit Crit Research

Hemingway

This guy really knowssomething about

bullfighting

I wonder what otherpeople think about

these books?

Reviews Vs. Criticism

"begins nowhere and ends in nothing"

Review of The Sun Also Rises from The Cincinnati Inquirer

Literary reviews are written when the work

is published and tell you if the work is good

Review of The Sun Also Rises from Hemingway's friend John Dos Passos

"What's the matter with American writing these days? .... The few unsad young men of this lost generation will have to look for another way of finding themselves than the one indicated here."

Literary criticism is often written years after publication and tries to understand the

work

Three of the most important Hemingway women suffer from diagnosable psychiatric disorders...An understanding of this aspect of their lives enriches our sense of the struggles they face.

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Questions?