The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

Writing as Fishing: Conceptual Metaphor and "Resonance" in a Story by Hemingway and a Poem by Wordsworth

Document Type

Internet Resource

Citation

Melnick, Burton. “Writing as Fishing: Conceptual Metaphor and ‘Resonance’ in a Story by Hemingway and a Poem by Wordsworth.” Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 13, no. 3 (Dec. 2012). www.dmd27.org/CLA.html.

Annotation

Focuses on the layers of conceptual metaphor underlying “Big Two-Hearted River” and Wordsworth’s poem “Resolution and Independence.” Melnick explains how in both works greater significance is attributed to the simple events of the narratives than those events warrant. Focusing on two aquatic metaphors, the mind as a body of water and fishing as writing, Melnick analyzes the mostly unconscious influence of Christian associations on the reader, concluding that Nick’s fish represent stories that he will write that will spiritually sustain him far beyond his current therapeutic fishing trip.

Published in

Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

Volume

13

Issue

3

Date

2012

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