[PDF] Critical Essays On Hawthornes Short Stories eBook

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307742792

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Here are the best of Hawthorne's short stories. There are twenty-four of them -- not only the most familiar, but also many that are virtually unknown to the average reader. The selection was made by Professor Newton Arvin of Smith College, a recognized authority on Hawthorne and a distinguished literary critic as well. His fine introduction admirably interprets Hawthorne's mind and art.

Author : A. N. Kaul
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Criticism
ISBN :

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Includes criticism of "Roger Malvin's burial," "The artist of the beautiful," "The custom house," "The scarlet letter," "The house of the seven gables," "The Blithedale romance," and "The marble faun."

Author : Millicent Bell
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521428682

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This book examines in detail some of Hawthorne's most important and most beloved stories.

Author : Nancy L. Bunge
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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One of the first American short story writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne is also among the finest. A sampling of his stories reads like an anthology of great literature: My Kinsman, Major Molineux; The Celestial Railroad; The Minister's Black Veil; The Maypole of Merry Mount; The Birthmark. Common to all Hawthorne's work is an intellectual, emotional, and psychological richness that may well remain unparalleled in fiction today. Indeed, as scholars learn more about history, literature, sociology, and psychology, the more they unlock secrets in Hawthorne's work. Few writers, of any generation, genre, or language have shared - or even approached - Hawthorne's lucid vision of the mind's hidden landscape. More remarkable, perhaps, was the compassion he felt for his subjects, while exploring their sin, guilt, cruelty, and arrogance. Human beings, he felt, can afford to face their flaws because they have the capacity to grow beyond them. Even his peers acknowledged his place in literary history: D. H. Lawrence called Hawthorne "the American wonder-child with his magical, allegorical insight"; Henry James wrote an entire book of criticism about him; and Herman Melville, in deference to Hawthorne's "great power of blackness", dedicated Moby Dick to his friend and neighbor. Nancy Bunge investigates the whole of Hawthorne's short fiction canon, including a number of the less celebrated stories. Her specific and detailed analyses include fresh commentaries on Hawthorne's lush and demanding fiction, including observations afforded by the moral, social, and historical interpretations of the stories. Many of her theories are not found in the extant body of criticism, and still others take the generalpatterns of critical interpretation to new levels. Bunge's thorough inspection also sheds light on the relation of the fiction to Hawthorne's own biography, including his Puritan roots.

Author : Gary Richard Thompson
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 1981
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780911198607

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A recurrent idea in Darrel Abel's criticism of the works of Hawthorne gives this volume its title. The idea of a fallen world and its potential for partial redemption through art and the art of criticism is a theme that weaves in and out of the sixteen essays. The volume as a whole displays an explicit and implicit concern with critical approaches and reflects an awareness of the fictiveness of critical resolutions in a world in which boundaries are constantly under challenge, for example, those which divide "textuality" from "contextuality." This collection of essays explores the problems the practical critic and teacher has had to face in the shifts in taste, assumptions, and methodology in the moves from moral and historical criticism to the "New Criticism," and to the newer linguistic and semiotic criticism.

Author : David B. Kesterson
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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Contains a collection of reviews and critical essays on The scarlet letter.

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : London : Vision Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780389202813

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A major reassessment of Hawthorne. The great novels are re-evaluated, as are the stories, and attention is paid to Hawthorne's use of the American past, of Nature, and to his understanding of the newly emerging American history and culture and his place within the context of European literature.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville--so different in temperament and background--were intellectual equals who formed a singular and intense friendship beginning in 1850. This volume, divided into three parts, examines the relationship. The bibliographic part addresses biographical accounts of the friendship, assessments of mutual influences, literary reflections of their relationship, parallel readings of their works, and generic and theoretical approaches to the two. The second part includes seven of the most important biographical and critical essays written on the Hawthorne-Melville relationship. The third appends the surviving primary sources: Melville's Hawthorne and His Mosses essay, Melville's 12 surviving letters to the Hawthornes, man and wife, and the Hawthornes' one surviving letter to Melville.