Title
By the Book: "Big Two-Hearted River" and Izaak Walton
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Influence study tracing similarities between Walton’s The Compleat Angler (1653) and Hemingway’s short story. Arguing against the conventional war wound reading, Monteiro identifies both texts as forms of the georgic tradition, serving to praise, instruct, and recreate the sport of fishing. Draws on other Hemingway descriptions of fishing in To Have and Have Not, and elsewhere.
Published in
Date
1996
Pages
145-161
COinS
Citation
Nagel, James, ed. Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.