Title
Language’s Limits and a Doubtful Nature: Ernest Hemingway’s "Big Two-Hearted River" and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Foreign Language
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Challenges the traditional psycho-symbolic interpretations of the story’s landscape, instead asserting that Nick’s desire for the perfect fishing spot represents his longing to understand life’s significance within the context of nature. Theorizes that landscape is used to point out the limits of inherently anthropomorphic language, as Nick physically, not linguistically, situates himself in his natural environment. Suggests that Hemingway’s prose is a movement toward Nietzsche’s new language, highlighting the complex “aesthetical relation between subject and object.”
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
33
Issue
2
Date
Spring 2014
Pages
107-118
COinS
Citation
Balaev, Michelle. “Language’s Limits and a Doubtful Nature: Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Big Two-Hearted River’ and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Foreign Language.” Hemingway Review 33, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 107-18.