- Title
- It s All About a Perfect Drift: Reading the Fishing Metaphor in "Big Two-Hearted River"
- Author/Creator
- Larry Grimes
- Publication Details
- Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World, pp.72-85
- Annotation
- Eschewing conventional biographical and psychological readings of the story, Grimes situates Big Two-Hearted River within the genre of nature writing and Thoreau s texts specifically. Draws on Hemingway s letters, diary entries, and key passages in Part II to focus student attention on Nick s harmonious immersion into the natural world. Among the numerous strategies outlined, Grimes encourages students to experience their own hiking, camping, and fishing trips in preparation for reading the story.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015136279803691
Book chapter
It s All About a Perfect Drift: Reading the Fishing Metaphor in "Big Two-Hearted River"
Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World, pp.72-85
2018
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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