Title
The River, the Iceberg, and the Shit-detector
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Focusing on the omitted section entitled “On Writing,” Miko questions the validity of the “iceberg principle” in relation to reading “The Big Two-Hearted River.” Disputes critics’ claims that the story’s unspoken backdrop is war, contending it is really about hiking, fishing, and camping.
Published in
Criticism
Volume
33
Issue
4
Date
Fall 1991
Pages
503-525
COinS
Citation
Miko, Stephen. “The River, the Iceberg, and the Shit-detector.” Criticism 33, no. 4 (Fall 1991): 503-25.