Hawthornes Conception Of The Creative Process

Author : Richard J. Jacobson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674382756
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawthorne's Conception of the Creative Process written by Richard J. Jacobson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Jacobson examines and delineates the processes of mind that Hawthorne conceived of as underlying the creative act. Taking issue with previous studies that have presented the novelist as an adherent of one or another of the particular schools of thought representative of his time, the author demonstrates that Hawthorne's views were, in fact, eclectically formed and were a fusion of classical and romantic attitudes. His intense preoccupation with the relationship between art and morality, and the validation of imaginative insights are central elements, Jacobson maintains, in Hawthorne's theory of the creative process.

Author : Larry J. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199728046
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Larry J. Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most widely read and taught of American authors. This Historical Guide collects a number of original essays by Hawthorne scholars that place the author in historical context. Like other volumes in the series, A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne includes an introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographical essay, and an illustrated chronology of the author's life and times. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, this volume addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Hawthorne's work, including his relationship to slavery, children, mesmerism, and the visual arts.

Author : Richard H. Millington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521002042
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Richard H. Millington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne s fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies today. In newly commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthorne s writing. Each of the major novels is treated in a separate chapter, while other essays explore Hawthorne s art in relation to a stimulating array of issues and approaches. The essays reveal how Hawthorne s work explores understandings of gender relations and sexuality, of childhood and selfhood, of politics and ethics, of history and modernity. An Introduction and a selected bibliography will help students and teachers understand how Hawthorne has been a crucial figure for each generation of readers of American literature.

Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817300511
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art written by Claudia Durst Johnson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In both his short fiction and major works, Nathaniel Hawthorne, like many romantics, is torn between the eighteenth-century view of an orderly, balanced, static art and universe, on the one hand, and the nineteenth-century conception of a changeful, various art on the other. Hawthorne based his social and psychological values on an organic view of the world, but the world of his art tended to be mechanistic. Johnson argues that Hawthorne found in theology the myths which became vehicles for his exploration of his art.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393623521
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to The Scarlet Letter—Hawthorne’s most widely read novel—as well as to the five short prose works—“Mrs. Hutchinson,” “Endicott and the Red Cross,” “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” and “The Birth-mark”—that closely relate to the 1850 novel. This Second Norton Critical Edition also includes: · Revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface, and a note on the text by Leland S. Person. · Key passages from Hawthorne’s notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and public writings · Seven new critical essays by Brook Thomas, Michael Ryan, Thomas R. Mitchell, Jay Grossman, Jamie Barlowe, John Ronan, and John F. Birk. · A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.

Author : Craig Hawkins Ulman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674789760
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satire and the Correspondence of Swift written by Craig Hawkins Ulman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first secret publication, in 1740, of part of his correspondence with Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift's letters have become a standard source for his biographers and critics. Craig Ulman argues that the letters are not entirely reliable for biographical fact and have often been taken too literally. In this readable essay, Ulman surveys the satiric material in Swift's correspondence, highlighting his wit. The author views Swift's epistolary writing as very much a literary endeavor. He examines the pose and the persona and discusses the satiric methods the letters share with Swift's other published works.

Author : Alexander Keyssar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674564756
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville's Israel Potter written by Alexander Keyssar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Keyssar's study focuses on Melville's treatment of the social and existential condition of the American common man--his inability to realize the happiness promised by the American dream and the impurity of democracy in a society with marked economic classes. The author discusses the literary coherence--thematic rather than narrative--of Melville's work as illustrated by Israel Potter and as representative of the novelist's writing during the 1853-1856 period. He includes a brief analysis of Melville's conception of literary "truth" and a discussion of the peculiar role of comedy in the sad story of Israel Potter. Melville's insights into the political and social flaws of America "contain remarkable relevance for the contemporary reader."

Author : Jonathan R. Grandine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674708006
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Shape in The Prelude written by Jonathan R. Grandine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wordsworth found expression for both his public and his private speech in the expansive form and peculiar organization of The Prelude; this fact, together with the problems and limitations that resulted, is the subject of Jonathan Grandine's study.

Author : Robert Nicholas Reeves
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674768901
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ridiculous to the Delightful written by Robert Nicholas Reeves and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Philip Sidney's comic technique, in particular the comic characters in the second version of his pastoral romance, is the subject of this ably written essay. Robert Nicholas Reeves begins with a re-examination of comic theory in Sidney's Defense of Poesy, and proceeds to a reading of the humorous in the Arcadia as a happy kind of moral teaching. He discusses devices employed--irony, ridicule, deflation--and the relation of the low comic figures to the delightful elements of the main plot.

Author : Christopher G. Fanta
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674550605
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marlowe's "Agonists" written by Christopher G. Fanta and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his closely argued essay Christopher Fanta maintains that the ambiguity in Marlowe's plays may well result from the duality of Marlowe's thought. Fiery protagonists like Tamburlaine, who are bent on overpowering the limitations of society and nature, are set against what Fanta terms the "agonists": a handful of minor, virtuous characters who by their actions and interaction with the hero express Marlowe's "other," muted voice. Fanta analyzes five "agonists": Zenocrate and Olympia in Tamburlaine, Abigail in The Jew of Malta, Prince Edward in Edward II, and the Old Man in Dr. Faustus.