Author: Patricia Ann CarlsonPublisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi
ISBN:
Category : Description (Rhetoric)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Hawthorne's Functional Settings
Author: Patricia Ann CarlsonPublisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi
ISBN:
Category : Description (Rhetoric)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Art of Authorial Presence
Author: Gary Richard ThompsonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822313212
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The critical literary world has spent a wealth of thought and words on the question of Hawthorne himself: Where does he stand in his works? In history? In literary tradition? In this major new study, G. R. Thompson recasts the "Hawthorne question" to show how authorial presence in the writer's works is as much a matter of art as the writing itself. The Hawthorne who emerges from this masterful analysis is not, as has been supposed, identical to the provincial narrator of his early tales; instead he is revealed to be the skillful manipulator of that narrative voice, an author at an ironic distance from the tales he tells. By focusing on the provincial tales as they were originally conceived--as a narrative cycle--Thompson is able to recover intertextual references that reveal Hawthorne's preoccupation with framing strategies and variations on authorial presence. The author shows how Hawthorne deliberately constructs sentimental narratives, only to deconstruct them. Thompson's analysis provides a new aesthetic context for understanding the whole shape of Hawthorne's career as well as the narrative, ethical, and historical issues within individual works. Revisionary in its view of one of America's greatest authors, The Art of Authorial Presence also offers invaluable insight into the problems of narratology and historiography, ethics and psychology, romanticism and idealism, and the cultural myths of America.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438116268
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Presents a brief biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, thematic and structural analysis of his works, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
New Interpretations of American Literature
Author: Richard FlemingPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838751275
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Each essay in this collection focuses on an individual classical American author--Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Moore, and Stevens--and the author's primary works. Traditional interpretations are reassessed based on close study of source texts and criticism.
Hawthorne's Use of Setting in His Short Stories
Author: William Paul SafranekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Hawthorne's Use of Settings in His Major Novels
Author: Gene Austin BarnettIn Hawthorne's Shadow
Author: Samuel Chase CoalePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"The world is so sad and solemn," wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne, "that things meant in jest are liable, by an overwhelming influence, to become dreadful earnest; gaily dressed fantasies turning to ghostly and black-clad images of themselves." From the radical dualism of Hawthorne's vision, Samuel Coale argues, springs a continuing tradition in the American novel. In Hawthorne's Shadow is the first critical study to describe precisely the formal shape of Hawthorne's psychological romance and to explore his themes and images in relation to such contemporary writers as John Cheever, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, William Styron, and John Updike. When viewed from this perspective, certain writers—particularly Cheever, Mailer, Oates, and Gardner—appear in a new and very different light, leading to a considerable reevaluation of their achievement and their place in American fiction. Mr. Coale's long interviews and conversations with John Cheever, John Gardner, William Styron, and others have provided insights and perspectives that make this book particularly valuable to students of contemporary American literature. Coale links contemporary writers to an on-going American romantic tradition, represented by such earlier authors as Melville, Harold Frederic, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers. He explores the distinctly Manichean matter of much American romance, linking it to America's Puritan past and to the almost schizophrenic dynamics of American culture in general. Finally, he reexamines the post-modernist writers in light of Hawthorne's "shadow" and shows that, however similar they may be in some ways, they differ remarkably from the previous American romantic tradition.
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature
Author: Kerry Dean CarsoPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783161620
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the influence of British Gothic novels and historical romances on American art and architecture in the Romantic era.
The Scarlet Mob of Scribblers
Author: Jamie BarlowePublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809322732
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"Barlowe examines the causes and consequences of the continuing disregard for women's scholarship. To that end, she chronicles The Scarlet Letter's critical reception, analyzes the history of Hester Prynne as a cultural icon in literature and film, rereads the canonized criticism of the novel, and offers a new reading of Hawthorne's work by rescuing marginalized interpretations from the alternative canon of women critics."--BOOK JACKET.
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