摘要
“The old man”and“the sea”are two essential parts of The Old Man and the Sea;however,most critics have given priority to“the old man”when interpreting the short novel.This essay thinks that the sea is not just a setting for action and attempts to explore the multiple meaning of the sea from the perspective of geocriticism.With theories of Westphal’s geocriticism and Tally’s literary cartography,it analyzes what the sea as geography does to the old man,how the sea is crucial to Hemingway’s writing and how Hemingway maps the sea.Geocriticism of the novella offers new insights in understanding literature.
基金
this paper is funded by The 13th Postgraduate Education Innovation Fund of Wuhan Institute of Technology(WIT),Research on Geographical Criticism of The Old Man and the Sea(Project Number:CX2021398).
