Gender Differences in Selected Works of Ernest Hemingway

• Název práce v češtině: Genderové rozdíly ve vybraných dílech Ernesta Hemingwaye
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Gender Differences in Selected Works of Ernest Hemingway
• Klíčová slova: Ernest Hemingway, Genderové rozdíly, Mužnost, Ženskost
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Ernest Hemingway, Gender Differences, Masculinity, Femininity
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2011/2012
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Vedoucí / školitel: Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 20.09.2012
• Datum zadání: 24.09.2012
• Schválení administrátorem: zatím neschvalováno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 09.10.2012
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 23.06.2014 09:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 05.06.2014
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 23.06.2014
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná
• Oponenti: PhDr. Hana Ulmanová, Ph.D.

Zásady pro vypracování

The thesis focuses on selected works of Ernest Hemingway. Its aim is to analyze the author’s characterization of his male heroes and their feminine counterparts in his works, and to show what impact the heroines have on the heroes. It will be argued that Hemingway’s heroes are generally known for being very “masculine” types, but they often change under the influence of their femmes fatales. Moreover, although it might seem that women are not important for Hemingway’s stories due to the fact that his heroes are depicted as strong and independent men who do not need women, it is the other way around, since women’s presence provides the reader with an ability to see the emotional side of the heroes. This can be observed on the relationship between Henry and Catherine in A Farewell to Arms or the relationship between Robert and María in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Finally, the thesis will also illustrate that while some critics consider Hemingway capable of depicting his male protagonists and incapable of depicting his female characters, their assumptions may be affected by his specific style of writing. Hemingway’s iceberg theory compels the reader to reconsider the content of the pages that he or she has just read in order to grasp the actual meaning of the text. Such a notion implies that the importance of the female characters can be observed no sooner than Hemingway's specific style of writing is comprehended. Gender differences are observable in a number of Hemingway’s works, but this thesis will primarily discuss his best-known novels (Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls) as well as some short stories.

Seznam odborné literatury

Primary Literature:
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. London: Arrow Books, 2004.
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. London: Arrow Books, 2004.
Hemingway, Ernest. Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises. London: Arrow Books, 1994.
Hemingway, Ernest. “A Very Short Story.” In Our Time. New York: Collier Macmillan: 1987.
Hemingway, Ernest. “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Garden of Eden. New York: Scribner, 1995.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Movable Feast. London: Arrow Books, 2004.

Secondary Literature:
Broer, Lawrence R., and Holland, Gloria ed. Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2001.
Donaldson, Scott ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Eby, Carl. “Rabbit Stew and Blowing Dorothy’s Bridges: Love, Aggression, and Fetishism in For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Twentieth Century Literature summer 1998, 204-218.
Fantina, Richard. Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Kennedy, J. Gerald. “Hemingway’s Gender Trouble.” American Literature June 1991, 187-207.
Onderdonk, Todd. “’Bitched’: Feminization, Identity, and the Hemingwayesque in ‘The Sun Also Rises.’” Twentieth Century Literature spring 2006, 61-91.
Tyler, Lisa. Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001.