Title
The Spacious Foreground: Interpreting Simplicity and Ecocritical Ethics in The Old Man and the Sea
Document Type
Article
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
COinS
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.