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Bibliography by Carlvert Green

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Annotated Bibliography Assignment

 

By Carlvert Green, Hemingway Short Story

 

1. http://www.olearyweb.com/classes/english10012/readings/twohearted.html

 

    “The Big Two Hearted River” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Like many of his short stories, it too chronicles the life of Nick Adams. In this story we find him in an old burnt down town of which he seems to have some familiarity. He travels through this town in order to get to the river so that he can go fishing. Throughout the story Hemingway gives very explicit details about the river and campsite that Nick is at, and also takes us on small trips through how Nick is feeling, and random memories of his. Previous stories about Nick Adams tell the audience that Nick has just come from war and may now be experiencing “shell-shock” or what we now call “post-traumatic stress disorder” and that gives us the reason that he wanted to escape to a place of familiarity and tranquility. At the end of the story we are left with Nick pondering whether or not he should visit the swamp that as a little further down from the river. His conclusion is that he will tackle that obstacle another day. We chose this short story, because despite its length, it is filled with rich wording and specifics that would allow us to make a model of the story.

 


2. "TaPor," Text Analysis Portal for Research, 14, Feb 2008, http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portal

 

 

    From the Wiki “toy chest,” the TAPor program is a text analysis tool that allows one to look at different aspects of a text such as list words, find a word or pattern of words, and other tools that allow you to look at the text in terms of what words are there, how frequently some of them appear or anything else you want to know about them. In addition to the more common and useful tools such as list words, there are also somewhat playful tools such as “wordbrush.” In a project like ours this program will prove to be very useful. Hemingway repeats himself many times throughout the rich imagery of the text, especially when describing height and depth level of the hills that Nick travels through, as well as the river. For example, the TAPoR program will be able to take the entire text and tell us how many times words that describe ascend/descend occur, as well as in what context, which will be a great help in making the model. This program can also prove to be useful for our supplemental material, in which we will analyze the way Nick is feeling as he describes these hills and the river.

 


 

3. Summerhayes, Don. "Fish story: ways of telling in "Big Two-Hearted River."." The Hemingway review 15.1 (1995):10-. 

 

    This analytical essay/article examines the narrative voice in “The Big Two Hearted River.” Among the issues examined is the fact that the narrative voice changes from that of Nick Adams, to author intrusions, meaning that the narrator’s voice blends with Nicks at time. And at latter points in the story when Nick is reflecting on past events, voices from those events are displayed as well. The piece also takes into account the readers voice, an aspect of the article that may or may not prove useful for our project. Lastly, the article takes into account that due to his “shell-shock” the memories that Nick does recount are not always reliable, which also adds a different dynamic to the stories narrative strategy. What should prove useful is this article’s analysis of the narrative voice. Through it we can gain other thoughts and opinions about the story and exactly what this narrative strategy does. This will be helpful in both analyzing the text so that we can build the model, as well as analyzing the text for the supplementary material that describes how Nick was feeling as different things are being described.

 


4. "Wordseye," Wordseye 14 Feb 2008, http://www.wordseye.com/

 

 

   From the Wiki "toy chest," this tool allows you to create a3D scene by using language. The opening page of the program says that through the use of descriptive sentences, you create the setting, objects present, lighting, and every other aspect of the scene. You can then change things like the camera angle to give the proper perspective, and press “render” to create the finished product. Given the immense amount of rich descriptions given in “The Big Two Hearted River” this program should work fairly well if we were to insert some of the text. After working with the program for a small amount of time I see that we may have to make the senses slightly less complicated than they appear in the short story, but after that menial task, the program should work very well. Once we have the 3D images created by this program, we should a pretty good idea of what we want our model to look like, as well as something digital to represent our project.

 


5. Lamb, Robert Paul. "Fishing for stories: what "Big Two-Hearted River" is really about." Modern fiction studies 37.2 (1991):161-.

 

    As the title implies, the main point of this article is to exam what “The Big Two Hearted River” is about, under the surface of the description of the hills, the river, and the fishing story. The author utilizes other criticism pieces to answer this question and also brings into account the Hemingway stories that are about Nick Adams in order to give the reader more contexts on the character. This article should prove helpful because of its mention of the other stories. How Nick operates, talks, and the situations that he goes through no doubt have an affect on this story as well, so having that background information can help with the supplementary material that goes along with the map.

 

 


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