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Title

The Spacious Foreground: Interpreting Simplicity and Ecocritical Ethics in The Old Man and the Sea

Document Type

Article

Citation

Hollenberg, Alexander. “The Spacious Foreground: Interpreting Simplicity and Ecocritical Ethics in The Old Man and the Sea.” Hemingway Review 31, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 27-45.

Annotation

Narratological approach using Hemingway’s simply described natural setting to reveal how the author’s foregrounding of nature creates “a parallel between the ethical challengers involved in masking nature and those involved in mastering the otherness of the text through interpretation.” Hollenberg focuses on Santiago’s readings of the open and silent space that surrounds him, tracing the fisherman’s gradual transition from an anthropocentric to a biocentric ethic.

Published in

Hemingway Review

Volume

31

Issue

2

Date

Spring 2012

Pages

27-45

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