- Title
- Writing as Fishing: Conceptual Metaphor and "Resonance" in a Story by Hemingway and a Poem by Wordsworth
- Author/Creator
- Burton Melnick
- Publication Details
- Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Vol.13(3)
- Annotation
- Focuses on the layers of conceptual metaphor underlying Big Two-Hearted River and Wordsworth s poem Resolution and Independence. Melnick explains how in both works greater significance is attributed to the simple events of the narratives than those events warrant. Focusing on two aquatic metaphors, the mind as a body of water and fishing as writing, Melnick analyzes the mostly unconscious influence of Christian associations on the reader, concluding that Nick s fish represent stories that he will write that will spiritually sustain him far beyond his current therapeutic fishing trip.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132160803691
Journal article
Writing as Fishing: Conceptual Metaphor and "Resonance" in a Story by Hemingway and a Poem by Wordsworth
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Vol.13(3)
2012
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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