Challenging Puritan Thought Nathaniel Hawthorne S Nature Descriptions

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Challenging Puritan Thought Nathaniel Hawthorne S Nature Descriptions

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Author : Silja Rübsamen
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2002-04-03

Challenging Puritan Thought Nathaniel Hawthorne S Nature Descriptions written by Silja Rübsamen and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-03 with Literary Collections categories.

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A+, University of Massachusetts - Amherst (English Department), course: American Romanicism, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction: The descriptions of nature in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories evoke an ambiguous impression. On the one hand, they occupy considerable space and therefore have to be regarded as essential parts of the story worth a close interpretation. The distinct attention for nature in Hawthorne’s work was instantly noticed by his contemporaries. A very early account is of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose poem “Hawthorne” cherishes the “tender undertone” in Hawthorne’s nature descriptions.(1) On the other hand, the descriptions of nature are not really autonomous, but should rather be seen as background settings for the action. Nature, for example, provides the fitting surrounding for the protagonist who is just about to fall from grace (“Young Goodman Brown”), or it serves as a means of additional characterization (“The Gentle Boy” and “The Scarlet Letter”), or it is a realization of a moral message (“The Hollow of the Three Hills”). Consequently, nature has an emblematic function, and its description can be regarded as a possibility to express a narrator’s emotional states of various kinds, which originate in the author’s own attitude to the action of the story.(2) [...] _____ 1 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Hawthorne.” In: J. D. McClatchy: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Poems and Other Writings. New York, 2000. p. 474-5. 2 In her analysis of nature personification in The Scarlet Letter Janice B. Daniel finds that Hawthorne’s nature descriptions serve to provide “a disembodied voice [as] an effective device which allows the narrator to have differing perspectives.” Janice B. Daniel: “’Apples of the Thoughts and Fancies’: Nature as Narrator

Hawthorne S Wilderness Nature And Puritanism In Hawthorne S The Scarlet Letter And Young Goodman Brown

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Author : Marina Boonyaprasop
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Release Date : 2013-06-01

Hawthorne S Wilderness Nature And Puritanism In Hawthorne S The Scarlet Letter And Young Goodman Brown written by Marina Boonyaprasop and has been published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-01 with Literary Collections categories.

Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America’s most noted and highly praised writers, and a key figure in US literature. Although, he struggled to become an acknowledged author for most parts of his life, his work “stands in the limelight of the American literary consciousness” (Graham 5). For he is a direct descendant of Massachusetts Bay colonists in the Puritan era of the 17th and 18th century, New England served as a lifelong preoccupation for Hawthorne, and inspired many of his best-known stories. Hence, in order to understand the author and his work, it is crucial to apprehend the historical background from which his stories arose. The awareness of the Puritan legacy in Hawthorne’s time, and their Calvinist beliefs which contributed to the establishment of American identity, serve as a basis for fathoming the intention behind Hawthorne’s writings. His forefathers’ concept of wilderness became an important part of their religious life, and in many of Hawthorne’s tales, nature can be perceived as an active agent for the plot and the moral message. Therefore, it is indispensable to consider the development behind the Puritan perception, as well as the prevailing opinion on nature during the writer’s lifetime. After the historical background has been depicted, the author himself is focused. His ambiguous character and non-persistent lifestyle are the source of many themes which can be retrieved from his works. Thus, understanding the man behind the stories is necessary in order to analyze the tales themselves. Seclusion, nature, and Puritanism are constantly recurring topics in the author’s life and work. To become familiar with Hawthorne’s relation to nature, his ancestors, and religion, it is essential to understand the vast amount of symbols his stories. His stories will be brought into focus, and will be analyzed on the basis of the historical and biographical facts, and further, his particular style and purpose will be taken into consideration.The second part of this book analyzes two of the author’s most eminent and esteemed works, namely ‘Young Goodman Brown’ and ‘The Scarlet Letter’ in terms of nature symbolism and the underlying moral intention. Further, it is examined to which extent the images correspond to the formerly explained historical facts, and Hawthorne’s emphasized characteristic features. The comparison of the two works focuses on the didactic purpose for in all of his works, Hawthorne’s aim was to give a lesson. Thus, it will [...]

Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne And Nature

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Author : Steven Petersheim
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-02-14

Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne And Nature written by Steven Petersheim and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-14 with Literary Criticism categories.

A friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world. This book seeks to redress this omission by elucidating the sense of environmentality that emanates from Hawthorne’s romances and other writings. Hawthorne’s sense of kinship with the natural world runs deep in his work, particularly when his fiction is examined alongside his voluminous notebooks. Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature also contributes to the growing scholarly work aiming to illuminate Hawthorne as a writer deeply engaged in the issues of his day, particularly involving the environment, rather than an author simply interested in reinterpreting colonial history. Today’s readers stand to gain a rich new understanding of Hawthorne by reassessing Hawthorne’s attitude toward the natural world.

The Scarlet Letter

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Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with categories.

The Oxford Encyclopedia Of American Literature

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Author : Jay Parini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

The Oxford Encyclopedia Of American Literature written by Jay Parini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with American literature categories.

This set treats the whole of American literature, from the European discovery of America to the present, with entries in alphabetical order. Each of the 350 substantive essays is a major interpretive contribution. Well-known critics and scholars provide clear and vividly written essays thatreflect the latest scholarship on a given topic, as well as original thinking on the part of the critic. The Encyclopedia is available in print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.At the core of the encyclopedia lie 250 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists. The most prominent figures (such as Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, Frost, Morrison, and so forth) are treated at considerable length (10,000 words) by top-flight critics. Less well known figures arediscussed in essays ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words. Each essay examines the life of the author in the context of his or her times, looking in detail at key works and describing the arc of the writer's career. These essays include an assessment of the writer's current reputation with abibliography of major works by the writer as well as a list of major critical and biographical works about the writer under discussion.A second key element of the project is the critical assessments of major American masterworks, such as Moby-Dick, Song of Myself, Walden, The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Death of a Salesmanr, or Beloved. Each of these essays offers a close reading of the given work,placing that work in its historical context and offering a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach. These fifty essays (ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words) are simply and clearly enough written that an intelligent high school student should easily understand them, but sophisticatedenough that a college student or general reader in a public library will find the essays both informative and stimulating.The final major element of this encyclopedia consists of fifty-odd essays on literary movements, periods, or themes, pulling together a broad range of information and making interesting connections. These essays treat many of the same authors already discussed, but in a different context; they alsogather into the fold authors who do not have an entire essay on their work (so that Zane Grey, for example, is discussed in an essay on Western literature but does not have an essay to himself). In this way, the project is truly "encyclopedic," in the conventional sense. These essays aim forcomprehensiveness without losing anything of the narrative force that makes them good reading in their own right.In a very real fashion, the literature of the American people reflects their deepest desires, aspirations, fears, and fantasies. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature gathers a wide range of information that illumines the field itself and clarifies many of its particulars.

Nathaniel Hawthorne S Attitude Toward Total Depravity And Evil

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Author : Alfred Jacob Levy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957

Nathaniel Hawthorne S Attitude Toward Total Depravity And Evil written by Alfred Jacob Levy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with American literature categories.

Nathaniel Hawthorne S Representation Of The Puritan Society

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Author : Bahar Ilk
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2017-11-20

Nathaniel Hawthorne S Representation Of The Puritan Society written by Bahar Ilk and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-20 with Foreign Language Study categories.

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: The first section of this paper will examine Hawthorne’s biography and historical background from which his Puritan inheritance arose in order to understand his works. After the historical background has been depicted, the focus will be set on the ambiguous illustration of the Puritan community in two of his works. Being a direct descendant of Massachusetts Baycolonists, the Puritan era of New England served as a lifelong preoccupation for Hawthorne and inspired many of his stories, especially "The Scarlet Letter" and “Young Goodman Brown”. Therefore, these two works are particularly significant in terms of their representation of Puritanism.

A Reader S Guide To The Short Stories Of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Author : Lea Bertani Vozar Newman
language : en
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
Release Date : 1979

A Reader S Guide To The Short Stories Of Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Lea Bertani Vozar Newman and has been published by Hall Reference Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Literary Criticism categories.

The Hollow Of The Three Hills

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Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-07-11

The Hollow Of The Three Hills written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-11 with categories.

The Hollow of the Three Hills (+Biography and Bibliography) (Glossy Cover Finish): In those strange old times, when fantastic dreams and madmen's reveries were realized among the actual circumstances of life, two persons met together at an appointed hour and place. One was a lady, graceful in form and fair of feature, though pale and troubled, and smitten with an untimely blight in what should have been the fullest bloom of her years; the other was an ancient and meanly-dressed woman, of ill-favored aspect, and so withered, shrunken, and decrepit, that even the space since she began to decay must have exceeded the ordinary term of human existence. In the spot where they encountered, no mortal could observe them.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Author : Thomas Spencer Baynes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875

The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.