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Essay Instructions: General subject would be Literary Criticism, please feel free to email me if that isn't what is meant by the question

THE BOOK IS "THE SUN ALSO RISES" by Ernest Hemingway

The assignment is: "After reading the work you will read AT LEAST FIVE pieces of literary criticism and create and annotated bibliography"

Literary criticism examples to be used (not all have to be used, just so there is five used in total, as the assignment stipulates)
1. formalist lens:
- patterns within the text
- what the work says and how
- relationship btwn form and content
- choice of symbols, literary devices .etc
2. biographical lens:
- authors life and how it was reflected in the work
- study of the work as reflection to the authors personal beliefs and life
3. historical lens:
- study time period it was written
4. feminist approach (I haven't read the book so idk if it applies)
- identifies gender roles in work
- Does the work reinforce or break down the patriarchy?
5. Reception theory
- who was reading the book when it was published
- how the book was received and why
6. mythological/archetypal approach
- search for universal symbols within the work
- a search for familiar patterns

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Essay Instructions: Some readers and critics believe that Brett Ashley is at the center of all the male characters? problems in the novel "Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises". Do you agree or disagree with this view?and why?

Essay Instructions: You should offer in Section A a history of the critical reception of The Sun Also Rises. This will show how the text was interpreted since the time of its publication, highlighting those critics who made a major contribution to new ways of interpreting it. Obviously such critics will be making use of a specific literary theory or theories, but the idea is to outline the history of the text''s reception, not to identify, say, the first feminist interpretation of it, which may well have been a poor example of feminist criticism that was largely ignored by succeeding critics.

Essay Instructions: Could The Sun Also Rises be viewed as an anti-war novel? Explain.
Be sure your essay has a clearly identifiable thesis statement and that you support that thesis with concrete, specific facts, examples, and quotes from the book The Sun Also Rises By Ernest Hemingway. No outside research is needed or required, but be sure you include a Works Cited page for the text.