- Title
- Hemingway s "The Great Blue River": The Gulf Stream as the Great Mother
- Author/Creator
- Erik Nakjavani
- Publication Details
- North Dakota Quarterly, Vol.66(2), pp.113-132
- Annotation
- Psychoanalytic study reflecting on the meaning of the Gulf Stream in Hemingway s work. Contemplates Hemingway s role as the idealized father, identifying the Gulf Stream as the vital energy driving his imagination. Analyzes the river s life-generating and sustaining powers as the nurturing Universal Mother and the repository for primeval mystery, discussing the author s ambivalent desire to both unite with and separate from the engulfing mother. Concludes with the idea that Hemingway, as a consummate artist, understood all of this, and that what he has thus created may indeed triumph over the corrosive effects of time and become coextensive with the survival of the English language itself. References On the Blue Water, Out in the Stream, The Old Man and the Sea, Green Hills of Africa, and Islands in the Stream.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015131944003691
Journal article
Hemingway s "The Great Blue River": The Gulf Stream as the Great Mother
North Dakota Quarterly, Vol.66(2), pp.113-132
1999
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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