Lone Star College-Kingwood Library
In The Sun Also Rises, 1926, Hemingway uses sparse but colorful description, skillful character portraits and realistic dialogue to portray life among a group of American expatriates on the Left Bank of Paris in the time following the end of World War I. Action in the novel takes place in Paris and in Pamplona, Spain, during the 1920's.
Main Characters
To learn more about Ernest Hemingway, watch The Sun Also Rises: Hemingway in Spain (Becky Bradley; approx. 3 1/2 min.; Requires QuickTime.)
Jake Barnes, an American newspaper correspondent.
Lady Brett Ashley, a war widow and one of the "lost generation"
Robert Cohn, a young writer
Michael Campbell (Mike), Brett's fiancé
Bill Gorton, Jake's friend
Pedro Romero, a Spanish bullfighter
Topics to consider include: disillusionment, friendship and relationships, irony, moral confusion, and sexual disfunction
BOOKS
Librarian Talk . . .About Books!Apply online for a library card. Use your card to:
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Use books about The Sun Also Rises to help choose and develop a topic for your paper and to find critical essays on the novel. To locate books, search the library catalog. Enter the title as a Keyword Anywhere or as a Subject search to find books which analyze or offer critical essays. Use some of the books listed below to begin developing the topic for your paper or to get background material on Hemingway's work. Books are also available in NetLibrary, a database of full text online books. Create a free account on any campus computer in order to save favorites or take notes on books you view.
REF PN771.C59 - Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) - A multi-volume set containing excerpts from scholarly articles on many literary works. Information on Hemingway is located in more than one volume, but information on The Sun Also Rises is primarily located in volume 61.
Search the shelves near these books to find more on The Sun Also Rises.
PS 3515 . E37 Z6193 - Hemingway Repossessed
PS 3515 .E37 S927 - A Rotten Way to Be Wounded
PS 3515 .E37 S922 - Brett Ashley This book is on reserve for use in the library and is also available in NetLibrary.
Check for books on reserve under your instructor's name in the library catalog. The will be at the circulation desk for use in the library.
Electronic databases are purchased by the libraries for your research use. Use them to find articles in newspapers and journals, letters, reference books, illustrations, photographs and more. Home access to article databases is available with your updated library card barcode. If you need assistance finding an article contact the Reference Librarians and they will see that you get the article. They will need full bibliographic information - and your name and address. Send your phone number as well, so they can contact you if necessary.
Use your library card to login to these online journal databases.
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Use databases to find articles from scholarly journals which discuss The Sun Also Rises. Many of the articles are full text within the database, so you will be able to email them, print them or download them to a disk. Enter your current library card barcode number to login. NetLibrary requires you to create a free account to take notes or save favorite e-books for viewing later.
Academic Search Complete - This multi-subject database contains articles from scholarly journals in literature. On the search page, limit your search to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals. Enter a keyword from the title and Hemingway to find articles discussing the novel.
JSTOR - an entirely scholarly and full text database with back issues of Literary journals.
Literature Resource Center - This database contains information about literature. Students can search for biographical information on an author (Author search) or information about the authors works (Title search). Choose articles which are critical essays. Those articles will be from scholarly journals. This database provides a link to the MLA index. See below.
MLA - Modern Language Associates index to literary journals, access is through the Literature Resource Center database. This database provides access to only a few full text articles, but it is the most complete index for literary journals. Use MLA to locate citations to articles found on microfiche in the library. Ask the librarians if you need help with the microfiche reader/printer.
ProjectMuse - This database is also full text and scholarly with more recent issues of literary journals.
Proquest - Another multi-subject database which does contain some full text scholarly literary journals. On the search page, choose Scholarly journals, including peer reviewed to find scholarly articles. Enter a keyword from the title and Hemingway to find articles discussing the novel.
NetLibrary Use one of the library computers or any campus computer to create a free account in order to use this database from off campus. This is a database of full-text books. You can search the contents of the books electronically to find information about your topic. NetLibrary does contain information about The Sun Also Rises. One of the books is Brett Ashley, which is also one of the reserve books in the library.
Learn to search NetLibrary for literary critcism!
INTERNET
Librarian Talk . . . About the Internet!The Internet will be a wonderful source of original documents. Browse the sites we have suggested below. Remember, you do want to find reputable sites. Look at:
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The Internet provides access to information on Ernest Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises, but students need to be vary careful to evaluate the information for validity, the level of scholarship, the content of the site, and the authority (who created the site). If you are in doubt about the usefulness of an Internet site, check with your instructor before adding it to your works cited. The sites below have been reviewed by the librarians.
Ernest Hemingway: a centennial assessment This web site offered by CNN is written by Dr. James Nagel a Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of Georgia.
The Ernest Hemingway Society This web page is a collection of information about Hemingway and his work. The society was founded by in 1965 Mary Hemingway, his widow .
Hemingway's Places This site by Literary Traveler describes places authors visited and wrote about. Hemingway traveled greatly and located many of his novels in foreign countries.
SUPPORT: GETTING HELP FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENTCiting Sources Using the Library MLA Style Guide | Lone Star College-Kingwood Library guide. Examples of both paper and electronic citations.
Avoiding Plagiarism | Excellent information and guide on how to avoid plagiarism from the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University.
University of Texas Copyright Crash Course | This helpful guide on copyright is suggested by Lone Star College-Kingwood Teaching and Learning Center.
Learning Center | Check the TLC hours for in-house tutoring
page created by Becky Bradley, Oct. 1, 2002. Revised 5/08 B.Bradley.
