\u3cem\u3eMano A Mano\u3c/em\u3e Rivalries in Spain and America: Hemingway vs. Faulkner in \u3cem\u3eThe Dangerous Summer\u3c/em\u3e

Traces the careers of both authors as well as their respective opinions about each other. Claims Hemingway casts himself as matador Antonio Ordóñez, the disciplined and graceful matador who confronts danger, and Faulkner as Luis Miguel Dominguín, the showy trickster who feigns danger, as a defense against his professional anxieties of inadequacy. Relies on Harold Bloom’s anxiety of influence construct and Melanie Klein and Hanna Segal’s concept of projective identification