THE CONCEPT OF WILDERNESS IN AMERICAN LITERARY THOUGHT AND THE CREATIVE AESTHETICS OF HEMINGWAY
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The article analyses the formation of the concept of wilderness in American literary thought and its distinctive manifestation in the
creative aesthetics of Ernest Hemingway. Three historical layers of the concept are distinguished: frontier thinking, romantic
idealisation and ecological re-evaluation. The core features of the writer’s aesthetics, namely reliance on professional knowledge,
the two-pole depiction of nature and the relationship of partnership towards the creature, are demonstrated on passages drawn from
the original text. The analysis substantiates that in Hemingway’s aesthetics wilderness is perceived neither as an enemy nor as an
ideal, but as an equal companion
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