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- Title
Pastoral as Commodity: Brautigan’s Reinscription of Hemingway’s Trout Fishing
- Authors
Daichi Sugai
- Abstract
This paper compares pastoralism in “Big Two-Hearted River” and Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America. Considering the difference between what might be called modernist pastoral and postmodernist pastoral, I argue for an understanding that goes a step beyond a conventional nature/culture dichotomy. Although a germ of consumer culture exists in Hemingway’s story, the relationship between Nick and Hopkins embodies a concept of romantic pastoral based on dualism. On the other hand, Brautigan, detecting the seeds of consumer culture in Hemingway’s pastoral, suggests that pastoral itself has become a commodity in the 1960s. Postmodernist pastoral not only adopts modernist pastoral but also reinscribes it with the prospect of disturbing the nature/culture dichotomy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BIG Two-Hearted River (Short story); TROUT Fishing in America (Book : Brautigan); HEMINGWAY, Ernest, 1899-1961; BRAUTIGAN, Richard Gary, 1935-1984; FISHING in literature; AMERICAN pastoral literature; CONSUMER culture theory; POSTMODERNISM (Literature)
- Publication
Hemingway Review, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 2, p112
- ISSN
0276-3362
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/hem.2017.0005