Hawthorne’s Narrative Strategies
Author | : Dunne, Michael |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781617034077 |
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Author | : Dunne, Michael |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781617034077 |
Author | : Michael Dunne |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781934110942 |
For more than 150 years readers have interpreted Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction in a dazzling variety of ways. Instead of arguing in favor of or against what these readers conceive the fiction to mean, this examination of Hawthorne's narrative strategies demonstrates how he leads readers to reason as they do. Throughout his career Hawthorne manipulated and experimented with all the elements of narrative discourse, creating texts that continue to cry out for, yet defy, interpretation. In The Marble Faun. just as in his earliest tales and sketches, Hawthorne varies pronouns and verb tenses, often within the same paragraph. In all his works he affirms the factuality of invented incidents in one sentence, then undermines the affirmation in the next. His narrators often confess themselves uncertain about their own narratives. In some of his fictions elements of romantic ideology are proposed as alternatively irresistible and foolish. In others, domesticity is represented both as the only avenue to true happiness and as a wishful illusion. Thus, as this study reveals, in Hawthorne's works history proves to be no more reliable than some obvious Gothic convention. Close readers of Hawthorne's narratives feel the compulsion to interpret, although they can do so only by ignoring considerable contradictions. This ploy, however, is Hawthorne's narrative strategy that destabilizes the reader by offering interpretive choices that can be accepted only by rejecting other equally plausible choices.
Author | : Richard H. Millington |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400862256 |
Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a cultural analyst of extraordinary acuity, ambitious to reshape--in a sense to cure--the community he addresses. Through readings attentive to narrative strategy and alert to the emerging middle-class culture that was his audience, the book defines and describes Hawthornian Romance in a new way: not, in customary fashion, as the definitive instance of a peculiarly American genre, but as a narrative practice designed to expose and restage the covert drama that affiliates us to our community. Hawthorne's fiction thus recovers for its readers, through the interpretive independence it teaches, a freer, more lucid, more critical relation to the community we inhabit, and the cultural engagement romance enacts in turn rescues Hawthorne from the confining marginality that the writer's career had threatened to confer. From the book's distinctive account of his narrative tactics, especially his deployment of the voices and attitudes--authoritarian or democratic, entrapping or freeing--that give shape to his ideological terrain, Hawthorne emerges as a daring reinventor of the novel's cultural role. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Crystal Dawn McCage |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
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Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 1438113358 |
A collection of critical essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne's work.
Author | : Gary Richard Thompson |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780822313212 |
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.
Author | : Sheila Frazier Kobler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2019-11-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)" by Henry James Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that town. He is often considered a literary genius. In this book, similarly revered author Henry James honors Hawthorne's memory by immortalizing him forever.
Author | : Robert S. Friedman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134417292 |
First Published in 2000. Throughout the nineteenth century, the study of geometry remained at the core of educational curricula in the United States, strongly affecting how educated Americans construed their world. This book examines how each of Nathaniel Hawthorne's romances presents a different geometric figure that becomes representative of the work's themes and narrative designs. These geometric figures, when approached from the perspective of Victor Turner's symbolic anthropology, server as cultural mediators, combining geometric symbology with a unique narrative perspective to offer metaphors of personal and cultural boundaries, Freidman presents the literary text as the point of intersection among such disciplines as cultural anthropology, history, mathematics and American literature.
Author | : Bernard McCabe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |