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- Title
"Out Too Far": Half-Fish, Beaten Men, and the Tenor of Masculine Grace in "The Old Man and the Sea."
- Authors
Stephens, Gregory; Cools, Janice
- Abstract
Hemingway used "The Old Man and the Sea" as a means of revising his code of "grace under pressure" to consider how a man manifests this grace when facing defeat or old age. Drawing on post-humanist scholarship and rhetorical criticism, the essay argues that Hemingway articulated an ethic of heroic humility in "The Old Man and the Sea." Exploration takes place in three registers: 1) Santiago's dependence on the boy Manolin, 2) Feminizing the sea and a respectful engagement with a feminine presence, and 3) Interspecies kinship—brotherhood between man and animals, as well as with nature.
- Subjects
OLD Man &; the Sea, The (Book : Hemingway); HEMINGWAY, Ernest, 1899-1961; OLDER men in literature; COURAGE in literature; HUMILITY in literature; HUMAN-animal relationships in literature; GRACE (Aesthetics) in literature
- Publication
Hemingway Review, 2013, Vol 32, Issue 2, p77
- ISSN
0276-3362
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/hem.2013.0005