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Author: Kathrin Gerbe Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638791130 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 40
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Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Siegen, course: More Than a Renaissance: Romantic Writers in America, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne's first novel and was published in 1850. Its subtitle A Romance consciously places the novel apart from everyday life. Set in 17th century Boston it tells a story about sin, guilt and love. As the moral values back then still were in force among Hawthorne's contemporaries, he uses the imaginative and symbolic form of the romance to alleviate the impression of the unusual themes in his novel. This essay discusses the ambiguity of the letter A that the protagonist Hester Prynne has to wear as a punishment for adultery. The letter assumes a different and ever-changing meaning for the characters of the novel, from accusation and sin to a new beginning and freedom.
Author: Kathrin Gerbe Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638791130 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 40
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Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Siegen, course: More Than a Renaissance: Romantic Writers in America, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne's first novel and was published in 1850. Its subtitle A Romance consciously places the novel apart from everyday life. Set in 17th century Boston it tells a story about sin, guilt and love. As the moral values back then still were in force among Hawthorne's contemporaries, he uses the imaginative and symbolic form of the romance to alleviate the impression of the unusual themes in his novel. This essay discusses the ambiguity of the letter A that the protagonist Hester Prynne has to wear as a punishment for adultery. The letter assumes a different and ever-changing meaning for the characters of the novel, from accusation and sin to a new beginning and freedom.
Author: Bettina Siebert Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3668906661 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 20
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Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Rostock (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), course: Early American Literature, US History and Its Aftermath, language: English, abstract: Breaking with the tradition of examining "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne for traces of (proto-)feminism, the paper approaches the idea of gender in analyzing the interplay of the time periods underlying the literary work - the 19th century as the time of writing and Puritan times as the setting of the plot. In the 200 years between the two moments, ideas of gender have changed with commencing ideas of female empowerment in Hawthorne's time. Looking at the shifting understanding of gender, the construction of femininity and masculinity is analyzed with a focus on the two protagonists - Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Overall, the gender relations between the two main characters change into opposite directions. Thus, Hawthorne's writing destabilizes conventional Puritan ideas of pre-ascribed spheres and gender roles. It has become an academic tradition over the past decades to scrutinize historical literary pieces for traces of feminism. Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" has been a prime object of interest for several scholars in this pursuit. The story of Hester Prynne who is outlawed by Puritan society after having committed adultery represents an early work to have a protagonist who breaks with the law of her time. This might be the reason why in an earlier tradition the novel has been read with Arthur Dimmesdale, the young reverend and Hester's lover, as the central figure. Approaches involving feminism and gender studies challenged this reading. Their focus however primarilyseems to be the tracing of feminist attitudes in Hawthorne's writing. In this approach the historical perspective of the literary work is often read from a contemporary angle creating a hybrid reading that involves three time frames, namely the Puritan time of theplot, the 19th century setting of the novel's writing and the contemporary moment of thenovel's reading.
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning ISBN: 1410336492 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 38
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A Study Guide for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Niklas Bastian Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3668278024 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 25
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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Amerikanistik), course: Life and Letters in the 19th Century, language: English, abstract: "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathanial Hawthorne was his first novel published under his own name. Also it is considered to be his best and/or most famous piece of work. It was written in the 19th century and until today still knows how to capture the readers attention. But why does this book still appeal to many readers and is now being published in its 66th edition, although one might think that it's topics might be a little outdated by now and modern readers would lack the possibility to relate? To answer this question we will have to take a closer look Hawthorne, his book and the themes therein. One might say that the letter did not have the effect on her as it was intended and as the novel progresses the letter 'A' seems of alter his meaning to certain people Hester interacts with. That is why I want to have a closer look at this famous scarlet letter, his different and how this is able to change throughout the novel. Especially the context of a puritan society has to be taken into account, or as Richard H. Millington noted: “Culture is a structure of meaning that is not ‘natural’ or automatic but locally variable, historically changing and thus both inescapable and humanly revisable – as the changing meaning of Hester’s letter within the Puritan community makes clear.“ It might be that people living in our world today could not be able to relate to the problematic for Hester Prynne. Day in, day out there are people committing adultery and give birth to illegitimate children. But there is no real consequences for the adulterer or women living alone with child. We have to consider the context of the story to be able to understand the conflicts and sheer catastrophic events which build the start for Hawthorne's novel. Hester Prynne's story is a story of conflict with her society, the puritan society. Therefore we will have to take a brief look at the Puritans, then we will progress with the relation between them and Hawthorne impaled in his novel and lastly we will explore the meaning of the letter itself
Author: Sandra L. Charlson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Critical pedagogy Languages : en Pages : 81
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Numerous voices in today’s educational arena have called for a shift away from fiction to nonfiction, away from romanticism to realism, and away from the works of dead white men to a more inclusive array of authors. This study of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) seeks to prove the continued relevance of this classic to today’s generation of students in modern, student-centered classrooms focused on critical thinking and the inclusion of all voices. Looking through the lens of Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy to explore the intersection of dialogue, voice, audience, and space wherein teacher, student, and text may meet to become co-creators of knowledge, this study will analyze the narrative ambiguities of The Scarlet Letter through which Hawthorne opens up just such creative spaces in which the audience may join in dialogue with the author to create meaning, to search for truth, to unveil reality. Next, this study will explore three literary/rhetorical theories, namely, feminist, trickster, and spatial theory, each intent on opening up the conversation to diverse groups, as does Hawthorne's ambiguity in The Scarlet Letter. As Hawthorne places himself and his “neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy-land” squarely into the Introduction of The Scarlet Letter, “The Custom House,” this study will identify issues Hawthorne struggled with in his own day, including slavery, women’s rights, and transcendentalist utopian ideals that reveal his own divided nature. This study explores how those spaces allow modern writers and critics as well as teachers and students the voice to confront and explore issues of today. This thesis, finally then, is a guide whereby teachers may be encouraged to include Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter in their classrooms wherein all members have a voice.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 440
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In addition to the text of the first edition of the novel, the New Riverside Edition of The Scarlet Letter contains a wide variety of contextual materials and scholarly essays. "Contexts" includes additional writings and letters by Hawthorne, as well as essays on the New England sources of the novel and the novel's publication history. "Criticism" contains early reviews of the novel and critical readings from the 19th century (such as an excerpt from Henry James' book Hawthorne) to the present.
Author: Kathrin Gerbe
Author: Kathrin Gerbe
Author: Ronald Gerard Fuchs (Jr.)
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Bettina Siebert
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Author: Niklas Bastian
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Sandra L. Charlson
Author: Elizabeth Weller Peck
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne