The Analysis on the "Iceberg" Writing Style

"Iceberg" writing style was created by the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway, who pioneered a new style of writing that is almost commonplace today. "Iceberg" style, as its name, was strong and marvelous in the hiding the 7/8 part while just appeared 1/8. The concealed parts of an iceberg were the implication in Hemingway’s stories. It combined the sensibility and thinkability of literature together in a subtle way and let readers explore the implied meaning from the striking images in the works.     

Female Hemingway Hero in"Hills Like White Elephant"

Ernest Hemingway, an American author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, is well known for his distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, and exact portrayal of macho characters, which attracts many critics' attention and earns the title of Hemingway hero.This paper finds that the characteristics of the conventional Hemingway hero can be traced on the female character instead of the male character in"Hills Like White Elephants". Through analyzing the characteris- tics of Hemingway hero on the female character, the author concludes that the female character in"Hills Like White Elephants"of- fers a unique and unconventional example of Hemingway hero and deserves more attention in the research of Hemingway 's charac- terization.     

The Old Man-the Real Winner in the Struggle Between Ego and Superego

The Old Man and the Sea was an excellent novel written by the famous American novelist Ernest Hemingway and the novel led to the Nobel Prize which he won in 1954.The novel is a simple story about a Cuban fisherman Santiago’s struggle with a marlin and sharks on the sea.In fact it has deep meaning,which implies the struggle between one’s ego and superego.Hemingway eulogizes the hero through the process of the struggle.The paper consists of three parts.The first part is the introduction to the writer and the novel.The second part analyzes the hero Santiago in details,including his struggle with the marlin and the sharks,his interest in the struggles.The third part is the conclusion that the hero Santiago’s superego controls his ego in the struggle and he is a real winner.     

The Discussion of the Character of Santiago in“The Old Man and The Sea”

"The Old Man and The Sea"is Hemingway latter years’masterpiece,with which he was awarded the Nobel prize in1954.As the protagonist of the novel,Santiago plays a vital role to the novel’s motif.Hemingway expresses his attitudes toward the life through the image of Santiago.The paper intends to explore the character of Santiago from different facets and angles.In the end,we reach a conclusion that Santiago is a strong-willed man with a young,indestructible soul,he is kind,sensitive as well as hardworking.In a ward,he is a perfect Hemingway hero.     

Hemingway and Nihility

Hemingway’s works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility,failure and death.Yet such a nihilistic vision is repeatedly modified by Hemingway’s affirmative assertion of the possibility of living with style and courage.Nihility in Hemingway’s works is primarily expressed in three forms:a) consciousness of death;b) consciousness of pains;c) consciousness of fantasies.It firstly comes from his life experiences,and then it is closely connected with his living environment and ages.Nihility makes notable impact on his creation.     

Succinct and Concise Style,Profound and Subtle Theme—An Appreciation of“The Killers”

Hemingway’s writing style is unique in the literary world.The basic feature of his works is concise,crisp and implicit.His dialogue has a name of"telegraphic dialogue".“The Killers"is the classic masterpiece of this style,and it is one of the most outstanding works of modern American short stories.This article aims at analyzing the theme and the characters of the novel through the dialogues.     

The Spiritual Prototype of Santiago in Greek Mythology

As the hero in Ernest Hemingway’s greatest masterpiece,The Old Man and the Sea,Santiago has always been considered as a perfect example of Hemingway’s stoical protagonists.Being one of the classic characters in the American literature,Santiago is noticed for his strength,wisdom,bravery,and above all,his unsurpassed endurance.Even though the prototype of Santia go in reality,as Hemingway once revealed in an interview,is an old Cuban fisherman who told him about his experience of catching a large marlin and losing it to the sharks in 1935[海],the spiritual prototype of the old man has been best interpreted in the Greek Mythology.To be more precise,Santiago’s spiritual prototype is the combination of Atlas,Prometheus and Sisyphus.     

What is Beneath The Surface——Analysis of Hemingway’s ’A Clean,Well-lighted Place’

This thesis is to analyze Hemingway’s ’A Clean,Well-lighted Place’-a story to which the author applies his famous ’iceberg theory’.Hemingway relates his stories to an iceberg with only one-eighth actually showing and the other seven-eighths under water.This thesis is to show what is beneath the surface and the hidden meaning of the story.     

On the Role of DiMaggio in The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea is one of the masterpieces of Hemingway,which describes the old fisherman Santiago is always collected in the presence of danger and maintains a high level of dignity in the struggle with nature. DiMaggio does not really appear in the novel,but the role he plays in the novel is very important. This article discusses the subtle and indispensable role he plays based on the dialogues between the child and Santiago and his inner activities when fighting with the marlin and the shark at the sea.     

A Thematic Analysis of A Farewell to Arms

"A Farewell to Arms" is one of the most famous works written by Ernest Hemingway.It displays two main interwaving themes of war and love by the narration of a young soldier ’ s experience and his love affairs with a beautiful nurse in the first world war.The novel reflects the author ’ s strong hatred of war and exposes that the war is the real root of the couple ’ s tragedy in this novel and the "Lost Generation " in the real society.     

ANALYSIS OF THE LOSS OF THE“LOST GENERATION”—the Hero Henry in A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway is an American novelist and a short story writer,one of the major American nouelists of the zoth century.He and his com-temparary writers influenced the development of the twentieth centurywriting not only in the U·S·A,but also in England France and manyother parts of Europe.     

Feminine Consciousness—From the perspective of Gender Markedness

Some researches have been conducted concerning the Markedness Theory about the marked and the unmarked, from aspects of Phonetics, Grammar, Pragmatic, Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic. Few researches have combined the Markedness Theory with literature theories and even no research has been done to study the Feminism Theory from the perspective of the Markedness Theory. This paper discusses markedness theory with regard to two basic issues: Why it is ok to say"历史"in Chinese, but the equivalent in English is"history", not"*herstory". Why the meaning of"governor"and"governess"is distinctively different? No research concerning the issues from the perspective of markedness has been conducted yet. This paper gives a brief review of the studies concerning the Markedness Theory, on the basis of which the question is aroused.     

The Farther Image of the Hotel Keeper in Cat in the Rain—Analyze with Speech Act Theory

It analyzes the father image of the hotel keeper in Hemingway’s short story Cat in the Rain from the perspective of Speech Act Theoy.Firstly,it presents the frame work of Speech Act Theory.According to Austin,there are two types of sentences: performatives and constatives.Yule further presents the action performed by producing an utterance will consist of three related acts: locutionary act,illocutionary act,and perlocutionary act.Then it analyzes respectively the speech act of the husband,the hotel keeper,and the wife.Through the analysis,the daughter image of the wife and the coldness of the husband the reveal and accentuate the father image of the hotel keeper who is considerate to his daughter and gives his daughter selfless love.Furthermore,it unfolds a broader horizon for readers to understand and appreciate the story.     

A Good Example of Hemingway’s Iceberg Principle:The Killers

Hemingway established a well-known literary theory - iceberg principle.He said he always attempted to create his literary works according to this principle.In his opinion,if a prose writer has a pretty clear idea of what he writes about,then he can omit the things he knows,and the readers will strongly feel that what the writer has omitted seems to have been written as long as what he writes is authentic.Hemingway himself once said,"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one eighth of it being above water."Here,one eighth refers to the information given by the author,and the rest refers to the unwrit ten information that can be acquired in readers’imagination on the basis of the one eighth.The Killers is a good example of Hemingway’s iceberg principle.This essay will analyse the characters in it to show how the principle was used in this short story.With no doubt the iceberg principle leaves a large space for the readers to imagine and better understand Hemingway’s works.     

Hemingway's Transcendence in both Life and Writing

Ernest Hemingway is a productive writer full of legends. His extraordinary experiences has an enormous impact on his writing. This paper reveals Hemingway’s transcendence both in life and in writing through his life experiences and some of his representative works.     

On the Exploration of the Viewpoints of Oscar Wilde in Model Millionaire——With the Approach of Appraisal Theory

Oscar Wilde has always been regarded as a controversial writer.A variety of literary criticism has been made on his works in the pure literary way.In this paper,the writer tends to obtain his viewpoints from analyzing Wilde’s piece of works Model Millionaire with the approach of Appraisal Theory,which is part of Systemic-Functional Grammar.     

“Plane”as symbol of Redemption in The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Ernest Hemingway is a great talented writer in American literature. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is considered to be one of his best stories.“plane”is a recurring image in this novel. Through analyze symbolism meaning of“plane”,we can find that“plane”as a line run through the whole novel and is a symbol of different redemption meanings when presents in different places,which builts a redemption trajectory from the corruption of body to the rising of spirit. The paper analyze“splane”as symbol of redemption from three parts: the redemption of body; the redemption that protagonist needs; the redemption of soul.     

An Analysis of A Farewell to Arms in Terms of Structuralism

A Farewell to Arms is a classical work in the history of American literature. The author, Hemingway, creates a kind of character in his works successfully, that is, the Hemingway Hero. Due to its exc...     

A Stylistics Analysis of Foregrounding in Hills Like White Elephants

Hills Like White Elephants is a short story written by Hemingway in 1927. The story of Hills Like White Elephants takesplace in an unknown small railway station in northern Spain. A young couple are waiting for the express to Barcelona. The storystarts the dialogue of the novel, which is simple and easy to understand, but vividly describes the rich inner world of the protagonists.The novel with only a few thousand words vividly shows Hemingway's unique narrative style. Hemingway uses irony, symbolism,semantics level and syntax level to depict the psychological state of characters. The Foregrounding theory of stylistics is usedto analyze the theme text and the style of Hemingway from two aspects—Deviation and Over-Regularity.