Title
Literary Coherence and Related Topics
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Contains a brief analysis of structural and other coherence in The Old Man and the Sea. Claims that Hemingway’s lengthy descriptions are sometimes irrelevant because they fail to add to the story’s progression.
Published in
Text and Discourse Connectedness
Date
1989
Pages
325-335
COinS
Citation
Vitacolonna, Luciano. “Literary Coherence and Related Topics.” In Text and Discourse Connectedness, edited by Maria-Elisabeth Conte, János Sánder Petöfi, and Emel Sözer, 325-35. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 1989.