The Depiction of Nature in Ernest Hemingway's Unfinished Story, The Last Good Country
Ecological criticism in the 1990s has declared many works, including Ernest Hemingway's novels like The Old Man and the Sea, and many of his nonfiction works and short stories as nature-oriented masterpieces. "The Last Good Country," one of Ernest Hemingway's later short stories, however, still remains to be reinterpreted as more than merely, "a metaphor for childhood innocence" (Werlock 131), and his usual "imaginative use of the natural world" (Fleming 2).
Unlike other short stories in Hemingway's early days, this unfinished story has a unique background on writing. No other Nick Adams story had previously been planned to be a form of novel. But
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See also Spilka, "Original Sin in 'The Last Good Country'," 211, where Spilka had already looked beyond former theories like Philip Young's thesis of a traumatic war wound.
2 Primitivism readings have frequently, mainly after 1980s, argued the inseparable connection between Hemingway's nature settings and Native Americans. See Paul Civello, 1-16; Jeffrey Meyers, 215-19. I have also discussed Hemingway's primitivism and involvement with his neighboring Native Americans in my previous paper, where I define the Spanish word cojones as "energy to live." See also Daisuke Fujiwara, "Mythicizing of the Ritualistic Cycle: Primitivism in 'Indian Camp'." Hokkaido Eigo Eibungaku 43 (1998): 27-36.
3 Trudy is Nick's girlfriend in "Fathers and Sons" and also known as Prudence in "Ten Indians." Some Native American characters including Trudy, Mrs. Tabeshaw and her husband are thought to have lived when Hemingway was young. For more information, see Peter L. Hays, "Hemingway's Use of a Natural Resource: Indians,"
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"Man Cannot Live by Dry Flies Alone: Fly Rods, Grasshoppers, and an Adaptive Catholicity in Hemingway's 'Big Two-Hearted River'." Fleming, 31-44.
Fleming, Robert E., ed. Hemingway and the Natural World. Moscow, ID: U of Idaho P, 1999.
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Hays, Peter L. "Hemingway's Use of a Natural Resource: Indians." Fleming, 45-54.
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Love, Glen A. "Hemingway's Indian Virtues: An Ecological Reconsideration." Western American Literature 22:3 (1987): 201-213.
Meyers, Jeffrey. "Hemingway's Primitivism and 'Indian Camp'." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal, 1988: 215-19.
Murphy, Charlene M. "Hemingway's Gentle Hunters: Contradiction or Duality?" Fleming, 165-74.
Phillips, Dana. "Is Nature Necessary?" The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1996. 204-22.
Spilka, Mark. Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1990.
---. "Original Sin in 'The Last Good Country': Or, The Return of Catherine Barkley." The Modernists: Studies in a Literary Phenomenon. Ed. Lawrence B. Gamache and Ian S. MacNiven. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson U P, 1987.
Psycho is an American horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1960 based on a 1959 novel with the same name. Alfred Hitchcock typically uses certain elements in almost all of his films. In Psycho the following elements appear; blonde woman, conversation that is not important to the story, alcohol, Hitchcock appearance, Mcguffin, pursuit, the camera looks around, a P.O.V., creating suspense by letting the audience in on a secret, mother figure, birds, stairs, and a narrow escape.
...e a leather-faced, chainsaw carrying lunatic, a little boy, or even the local owner of a motel down your highway. In the case of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller Psycho, our monster was Norman Bates, a psychopathic killer. A killer shaped by his front of normalcy, his ability to attract sympathy from the audience, the relations he has to the things he stuffs, his mothers oppression, and consequently the actions formed by his years of sexual repression. All these aspects solidify the formula presented in “An Introduction to the America Horror Film” (183-208).
This movie single-handedly ushered in an era of inferior screen ‘slashers’ with blood-letting and graphic, shocking killings. This was Hitchcock’s very first horror film, and since it debuted he has been labeled as a horror film director ever since. It was a low-budget film, only costing 800,000 dollars. Although it had a low-budget, it was brilliantly edited. It was a stark black and white film. Psycho also broke all film conventions by displaying its leading female protagonist having a lunchtime affair in her sexy white undergarments in the first scene. It also had a brilliantly edited shower murder scene. It was truly a master piece and will remain a master piece as long as it stays around. (Psycho (1960), Document 3)
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People have been looking behind their shower curtain when they enter the bathroom ever since Psycho swirled its way into movie theaters in 1960. This irrational fear of lurkers in the bath and scary psyches began with the first ever slasher film: Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock. Throughout the years, Psycho never lost its potency as the movie that created the horror genre as we know it. The low-budget “just for fun” film project that Hitchcock had originally intended as his last “kick” in his career as a director changed the entire business and ended up being Hitchcock’s defining piece. Pre-Psycho scary movies had been slow in pace and conservative in content. Psycho’s director, Alfred Hitchcock, knew what the ‘norm’ was for filming because he had in the business for more than twenty years, but he wanted to break them. Psycho has been completely unforgettable since the 1960’s because of Hitchcock’s disregard of Hollywood’s rules of cinematography, revolutionary scoring, and never-before-seen yet realistic and creative filming techniques; Hitchcock did not create only a ‘scary’ movie, he created a new genre of fear that has had an effect on the film industry ever since.
Waldhorn, Arthur. Ernest Hemingway: A Collection of Criticism (Contemporary Studies in Literature). Chicago: Syracuse University Press, 1978.
Ernest Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River"* is such a rich text that it has probably received more literary critical attention than many novels of several times its length. Hemingway's ardent use of intricate detail and his intentional, calculated use of short, simple sentences help to make "River" a treasure chest of critical ideas and possible interpretations. Historically, much of the criticism of "River" has examined the dark underlying themes of the story, such as the alleged omission of some preceding, devastating event and Nick's wounded spiritual and mental state. These sentences, such as "There was no town, nothing but the rails and the burned-over country," are representative of the abundance of similar language throughout the story and make it easy to understand why many critics focus on dark themes, devastation and mental instability. Without denying or dispelling any of the valid "dark" critiques, I intend to show that "River" may also be easily understood in a more positive light as an account of one man's struggle to heal himself by returning to what he knows and loves.
According to the learning styles theory there are three main learning styles. The first is visual. This is a student who prefers to see the information through notes, pictures, or demonstration. The second is auditory. This type of learner prefers to hear the information through lecture or recordings. The third is kinesthetic. A kinesthetic learner prefers to learn information through practical exercises and physically performing the task being taught. The learning styles theory is that if you teach a student by using their preferred learning ...
In 1960 one black and white movie shocked us all. This movie attacked our minds and our hearts in one of the most vulnerable places in what is considered to be one of the greatest and most epic scenes of all time. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho made women and even some men afraid take a shower. This movie was the first of its kind and gave birth to a whole new genre of movies, the slasher film. Without this movie Freddie Kruger, Jason, Michael, Leatherface, and all of the other psycho killers would cease to exist. All these killers, even Ghost Face from Scream owe Norman Bates a huge debt of gratitude. If it wasn’t for him these killers would not exist Norman Bates was the first of the masked psycho killers.
Fiedler, Leslie A. “Hemingway.” Love and Death in the American Novel. (1966): 316-17. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1973. 143.
In Beowulf, the protagonist Beowulf is shown as a hero with extrodinary strength. This is not what makes him a hero. By definition, a hero is a man of exceptional quality. However this term does not do Beowulf justice. His self-imposed purpose in life is to help others, and eventually sacrifices his own life in doing so. Beowulf’s battle with the dragon serves as a critique of the notion that Beowulf is a hero. The Dragon section displays many of Beowulf’s heoric characteristics. Beowulf establishes himself as a hero by fighting the dragon, exemplifing strength and courage when fighting the dragon, and sacrificing himself so that others can live.
The Cambridge Companion to Ernest Hemingway; edited by Scott Donaldson; Cambridge U. P.; New York, NY; 1996
The Master of Suspense, or in other words, Alfred Hitchcock, was an eminent person in movie and filmmaking history (obviously!). He was the director of many classic horror films such as Psycho, The Birds, Rope, Rear Window, and other expertly-crafted masterpieces. He also made a thrilling and suspenseful impact on audiences around the world. Hitchcock has become a household name (http://www.alfredhitchcock.com/life-and-legacy/biography/) throughout his movies. Also, he had a T.V. show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents (many sources) with many frightening stories that delighted anyone tuned in.
Inspired by the life of the demented, cannibalistic Wisconsin killer Ed Gein (whose heinous acts would also inspire THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, 1974 and DERANGED, 1974), PSYCHO is probably Hitchcock's most gruesome and dark film. Its importance to its genre cannot be overestimated. PSYCHO's enduring influence comes not only from the Norman Bates character (who has since been reincarnated in a staggering variety of forms), but also from the psychological themes Hitchcock develops.
Did you find it easier to understand a thing by reading or hear it from someone else or do your understand better by looking at the picture ? Some people may find it even harder to read a map. Things may difficulty for some peoples but others learn, it is because everyone learns in different ways. How people interprets or understand the information depends on how their learning style. Learning style may vary depending on factor that influence . While learning style has been defined as the way people learn, or how one interprets information. The most common learning style is the Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, and Kinaesthetic. Most of us may have some idea of how we learn better, but often we surprise to find out what our predominant learning style. In 1987 Neil D. Fleming, an experienced educator developed the VARK learning style as an effort to help students learn better. VARK contains 16 question that help identify a person's learning style. For some students they may have a preference for one type of learning, but also