- Title
- Reading Hemingway s The Old Man and the Sea: Glossary and Commentary
- Author/Creator
- Bickford SylvesterLarry GrimesPeter L. Hays
- Annotation
- Annotates and critically comments on unfamiliar and obscure details and allusions to provide a comprehensive guide to the people, places, things, events, and other references found in the novella. The authors close reading, beginning with the opening dedication and closing with the novella s ironic ending on the tourist s ignorance, explicates important themes and symbols from the theological to the ecological. Entries are arranged chronologically as they appear in the text and correspond to the page numbers of Scribner s 1995 paperback edition so that readers can easily consult the guide as they read. The introduction surveys the novella s composition and publication history, contemporary critical reception, and important scholarship over the decades. General readers and scholars alike will appreciate the thoroughness and helpfulness of this close reading. Includes index.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book
- Record Identifier
- 991015132486503691
Book
Reading Hemingway s The Old Man and the Sea: Glossary and Commentary
2018
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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