Abstract

A Clean, Well-lighted Place, a representative work with the application of iceberg principle, is one of the best short stories written by Ernest Hemingway, a world-renowned American Nobel Prize winner of literature. This paper attempts to discourse the iceberg theory embodied in the short story by studying such language skills and narrative style as language style, repetition, free direct speech, as well as symbolism and contrast, and then studies further the far-reaching influences it has exerted on the modern literature.

Key words: Iceberg Theory, language skills, narrative style

摘  要

诺贝尔文学奖得主、美国著名小说家厄内斯特．海明威所创作的短篇故事《一个干净，明亮的地方》被公认为是冰山理论的典范之作。本文通过对该短篇故事中诸如语言风格，反复手法，自由直接引语的使用以及象征手法和对比技巧等语言技巧和叙事风格的研究，阐述了海明威冰山原则在此篇作品中的具体表现，并探究了海明威冰山风格对现代文学作品的深远影响。

关键词：冰山原则；语言技巧；叙事风格

1.    Introduction
     Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961), born in a doctor’s family of the Oak town, worked as a journalist after graduation from high school. In the WWI, Hemingway responded to a Red Cross recruitment effort and signed on to become an ambulance driver in Italy where he was seriously wounded by mortar fire at the front line. After the war, Hemingway got acquainted with writers in Paris, such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce and Ezra Pound who could help a young writer up the rungs of a career.
     His early short stories In Our Time, published in 1925, received considerable praise. Henceforth, many famous works were published, such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea. In 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature for his mastery of modern narrative art.