Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea

The present book is an in-depth critical study of the modern American classic, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and the Nobel Prize in 1954. This study,while keeping the novel under the critical lens, examines it against the backdrop of Hemingway's aesthetic convictions and overall literary achievement. It throws light on the various dimensiosn of not only the novel but Hemingway's craftsmanship like his use of suggestion and symbolism, his inimitable style, his manipulation of narrative perspective, and the way he projects his philosophcial theme of the ephemeral versus the everlasting, which is dramatized in The Old Man and the Sea.
About Author :
P.G. Rama Rao retired from the P.G. Dept. of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar in 1995 after a long and distinguished innings as a teacher of Englishand American Literature. His Ph.d. thesis on Hemignway's Narrative Technique and his article on "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" were highly acclaimed in Sixteen Modern American Authors (Duke Univ. Press, 1974).
Contents :
General Preface Preface A Celebrated Writer A Brief Life-Sketch The Making of a Writer Hemingway's Literary Credo Hemingway's Contrapuntal Theme A Brief Summary of The Old Man and the Sea Dynamics of Narration The Iceberg A Priose That has Never Been Written Characterization Critical Reception A Note on the Conclusion of The Old Man and the Sea The Manuscripts of theNovella The Old Man and the Sea on the Screen Conclusion Select Bibliography Index