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Nobles and animals: Hierarchic organization and restoration in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables"
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Nobles and animals: Hierarchic organization and restoration in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables".
Creator
Cecere, Gregory Douglas., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
Abstract/Description
Since its publication, critics and readers have been unsatisfied with the conclusion of The House of the Seven Gables and have viewed it as either inconsistent or a failure. After an analysis of the language, actions, and patterns of imagery in this work, along with The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance, it had become clear that there is in fact consistency to the conclusion of this text. These patterns suggest Hawthorne's conception of an ultimate hierarchical organization that...
Show moreSince its publication, critics and readers have been unsatisfied with the conclusion of The House of the Seven Gables and have viewed it as either inconsistent or a failure. After an analysis of the language, actions, and patterns of imagery in this work, along with The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance, it had become clear that there is in fact consistency to the conclusion of this text. These patterns suggest Hawthorne's conception of an ultimate hierarchical organization that favors characters who exhibit specific attributes. This organizational pattern can be disrupted through methods of recreating hierarchical order. Such attempts create a false hierarchy, doomed to failure, and corrupt those characters, keeping them from ultimately realizing their true place in the hierarchy. It is only at the end of The House of the Seven Gables that the false hierarchists are punished or redeemed and the naturally hierarchic are ultimately rewarded.
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Date Issued
2001
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12779
Subject Headings
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--House of the seven gables, Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Characters
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ROOMS OF THE LOOKING-GLASS: MIRROR STRUCTURES AND IMAGERY IN BORGES AND HAWTHORNE
Title
ROOMS OF THE LOOKING-GLASS: MIRROR STRUCTURES AND IMAGERY IN BORGES AND HAWTHORNE.
Creator
HAGER, STANTON ROBERT., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description
The "mirror" provides significant structure and imagery in the work of Borges and Hawthorne, as illustrated by Borges' "Averroes' Search" and "The Zahir" and by Hawthorne's "Monsieur du Miroir"' and The Scarlet Letter. Neither author regards the mirrors within or of his art as faithful reflectors of things in the Realistic tradition, nor as faithful reflectors of inner truth in the Romantic tradition; rather, each views his art as he does the objects mirrored by it--as darkened, tarnished,...
Show moreThe "mirror" provides significant structure and imagery in the work of Borges and Hawthorne, as illustrated by Borges' "Averroes' Search" and "The Zahir" and by Hawthorne's "Monsieur du Miroir"' and The Scarlet Letter. Neither author regards the mirrors within or of his art as faithful reflectors of things in the Realistic tradition, nor as faithful reflectors of inner truth in the Romantic tradition; rather, each views his art as he does the objects mirrored by it--as darkened, tarnished, made ambiguous hy human perspective. And yet, because the mirror offers hints of truth and promises of understanding, it continually provokes our contemplation.
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Date Issued
1981
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14076
Subject Headings
Borges, Jorge Luis,--1899-, Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864
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INFLUENCE OF JOHN MILTON ON THE FICTION OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Title
THE INFLUENCE OF JOHN MILTON ON THE FICTION OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
Creator
FERRARA, ANTHONY EDWARD., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
Abstract/Description
Nathaniel Hawthorne ~rew extensively on the poetry of John Milton for his fiction. Hawthorne praised Milton in his works and often referred to his poems. Many of Hawthorne's garden scenes have their symbolic roots in the Miltonic Eden, and his Blithedale Romance displays a great familiarity with Milton's! Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus). Hawthorne's late romance, The Marble Faun, employs the Miltonic theme of man's fall from grace and often parallels the structure of Paradise Lost.
Date Issued
1975
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13754
Subject Headings
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864., Milton, John,--1608-1674--Influence--Hawthorne.
Format
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Framing bad art: A semiotic view of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance
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Framing bad art: A semiotic view of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance.
Creator
Givonetti, Scott B., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
Abstract/Description
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance has been criticized contemporaneously and subsequently by such figures as F. O. Matthiessen, Mark Van Doren, and Rudolph Von Abele for its lack of romanticism or realism, depending upon the critic. This thesis uses a semiotic approach to explore Hawthorne's deconstruction of his first-person narrator, Miles Coverdale, and the resulting confusion among critics regarding authorial control in what some call his "anti-romance." Coverdale, as a detached...
Show moreNathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance has been criticized contemporaneously and subsequently by such figures as F. O. Matthiessen, Mark Van Doren, and Rudolph Von Abele for its lack of romanticism or realism, depending upon the critic. This thesis uses a semiotic approach to explore Hawthorne's deconstruction of his first-person narrator, Miles Coverdale, and the resulting confusion among critics regarding authorial control in what some call his "anti-romance." Coverdale, as a detached artist, is responsible for reality's misinterpretation and misrepresentation, somewhat lampooning Transcendentalism. The triadic relationship of object, sign, and interpretant modeled by Charles Sanders Peirce is discussed using Liszka, Sebeok, Eco, and others and is complimented by the Umwelt Theory of Jakob von Uexkull to explain Coverdale's faulty symbolism. Hawthorne's "The Custom House" is also used to indicate his concerns for artistic limitation and the loss of an individual in a static community as he later fictionalizes in Blithedale.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13323
Subject Headings
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864.--Blithedale romance., Symbolism in literature., Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Criticism and interpretation., Semiotics and literature.
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"Is the world, then, so narrow?"
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"Is the world, then, so narrow?": the simultaneous need for home and travel in Hawthorne's The scarlet letter.
Creator
McGrath, Derek., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and its preface, "The Custom- House," the author himself and Pearl Prynne are characters who engage in travel, escaping the restrictiveness imposed onto them by their hometowns and finding greater creative freedom elsewhere. Their journey, however, is not necessarily physical but rather creative. Hawthorne and Pearl employ writing and imaginative thinking, respectively, in order to characterize Salem and Boston as foreign locations through which...
Show moreIn Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and its preface, "The Custom- House," the author himself and Pearl Prynne are characters who engage in travel, escaping the restrictiveness imposed onto them by their hometowns and finding greater creative freedom elsewhere. Their journey, however, is not necessarily physical but rather creative. Hawthorne and Pearl employ writing and imaginative thinking, respectively, in order to characterize Salem and Boston as foreign locations through which they may tour. The two are what Hawthorne calls "citizen[s] of somewhere else," although they have not departed from their homes yet. By considering how "The Custom-House" relates to The Scarlet Letter based on the themes of travel and home, a new interpretation arises about Hawthorne's book as well as his definition of the American romance, which posits that a person may use creativity in order to find his or her place both within and away from the community.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11605
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation
Format
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Hawthorne's play on gender and sexuality in "The Blithedale Romance"
Title
Hawthorne's play on gender and sexuality in "The Blithedale Romance".
Creator
Rubin, Brooke J., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
Abstract/Description
Feminist critics have primarily concentrated on the character of Zenobia, Nathaniel Hawthorne's premier feminist in The Blithedale Romance, to unravel Hawthorne's stance on the emergent sexual politics of the time. This thesis not only examines the importance of Zenobia but also analyzes the significance of Hawthorne's allusions to gender and sexuality constructs in terms of his other characters: Coverdale, Hollingsworth, Priscilla, Westervelt, and Moodie. In addition, I argue that Hawthorne...
Show moreFeminist critics have primarily concentrated on the character of Zenobia, Nathaniel Hawthorne's premier feminist in The Blithedale Romance, to unravel Hawthorne's stance on the emergent sexual politics of the time. This thesis not only examines the importance of Zenobia but also analyzes the significance of Hawthorne's allusions to gender and sexuality constructs in terms of his other characters: Coverdale, Hollingsworth, Priscilla, Westervelt, and Moodie. In addition, I argue that Hawthorne's purpose is to experiment with societal constructs of gender and sexuality among his central characters, a literary experiment that inadvertently subverts his ostensible traditional, patriarchal perspective. In essence, my reading aims to reorientate the conventional presuppositions and gender conventions that have dominated Hawthorne criticism for the past 150 years.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13353
Subject Headings
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Blithedale romance, Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Political and social views, American fiction--19th century--Criticism and interpretation, Women in literature, Sex role in literature
Format
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