《老人与海》是美国作家海明威的代表作之一，他通过现实主义的，富于想象的创作，以摄象机般的写实手法记录了老渔夫圣地亚哥捕鱼的全过程，塑造了一个在重压下仍然保持优雅风度、在精神上永远不可战胜的老人形象。本书对《老人与海》作了详细的解读。本书为英文版。

Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and specifically cited by the Swedish Academy when Hemingway received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, TheOM Man and the Sea rerhains one of the author's most beloved works. This casebook helps readers interpret and appreciate the thematic concerns of the novel, as well as the contextual issues it explores. Topic chapters provide information on Cuba, including its natural geography, sociopolitical history and file ethnic background of its people.A wide variety of primary documents such as interviews and articles, along with charts and illustrations, establish a framework for interdisciplinary .study. One chapter with particular appeal to students deals with Hemingway's treatment of the ethos and issues of baseball and Sports. The easebook is completed with contemporary issues, suggestions for oral andwritten exploration of the novel and further suggested readings.

Introduction

1. A Literary Analysis of The Old Man and the Sea

2. The Cuban Environment: Geography and Climate and the Living Organisms They Support

  FROM:

  Thomas Barbour, A Naturalist in Cuba (1945)

  Interview with Dr. Bonnie Kelley (26 June 2001)

  Robert P. Weeks, “Fakery in The Old Man and the

  Sea” (December 1962)

3. Cuban Historical, Political, and Economic Background

  FROM:

  Interview with Dr. Arlyn Moeller (4 May 2000)

  Helen Hall, “The Island Next Door” (February 1935)

  Fidel Castro, History Will Absolve Me (1953)

  Ludwig Bemelmans, “The Best Way to See Cuba”

  (1957)

  “Wealth in the Deep” (1953)

  Nina Wilcox Putnam, “To Havana with the Fly by

  Night Club” (1947)

4. Cuban Culture: An Ethnic Background

  FROM:

  Ludwig Bemelmans, “The Best Way to See Cuba”

  (1957)

  Alejandro de la Fuente, “Race and Inequality in

  Cuba, 1899-1981” (January 1995)

  Enrique Canova, “Cuba--The Isle of Romance” (1933)

  “Cuba: Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre”

  (28 February 2000)

  Enrique Canova, “Cuba--The Isle of Romance” (1933)

  Gigi Anders, “Machismo: Dead or Alive?”

  (March 1993)

  Marit Melhuus, “Power, Value, and the Ambiguous

  Meaning of Gender” (1996)

5. Sports

  FROM:

  Joe Williams, “The Passing of Mr. McGraw, Maybe

  It’s for the Best, Giants No Longer His Gang”

  (4 June 1932)

  “Play Ball, Amigos: When Yuba Plays Ball Down in

  Cuba, Anything Goes“ (20 January 1951)

  “Sisler’s Son Hitting Star in Havana”

  (29 January 1946)

  Dan Daniel, “ ’May Be My Last Year’: DiMaggio“”

  (3 March 1951)

  Mrs. Oliver C. Grinnell, “Introduction” and “World

  Records” (1935)

  Captain Rick Gaffney, “Alfred Glassell’s Legacy to

  Billfishing Transcends His 1,560-Pound Black Marlin

  World Record” (January 1998)

  Ray TruUinger, “New Big Fish Club Is Organized, But

  It’s Awfully Hard to Crash” (23 November 1936)

6. The Old Man and the Sea: Contemporary Issues

  FROM:

  “Market Scene: Cubans Tasting Capitalism--But It’s

 Just an Appetizer” (29 March 1994)

  “Cubans Resume Their Exodus by Boat Across

  Florida Strait” (22 October 1965)

  Interview with Tim Wiles (20 July 2001)

Index