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Title

Language’s Limits and a Doubtful Nature: Ernest Hemingway’s "Big Two-Hearted River" and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Foreign Language

Document Type

Article

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.

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

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