Search results for "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
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« The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne »
2016
“The Letters of Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne”
2016
“Out-of-Kilter Icons, Historical Distortions and Horizon Figures in The Scarlet Letter; or, A Troubled America in a Bell Jar”
2006
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The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville’s Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
2016
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“The Divine Magnet: Melville’s Writings to and about Hawthorne”
2017
The Subtle Residual: Baroque Echoes in The Scarlet Letter
2021
The following essay analyzes a significant Baroque substrata underlying The Scarlet Letter, taken up, among other things, in relation to the momentous Puritan legacy that is an essential element of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s literary work. In particular, the paper focuses on analyzing crucial and minor Baroque topoi represented in the novel, such as metamorphosis, relativism and ambivalence of reality, anxiety and the obsession with death. Furthermore, the article investigates the role of sharp chromatism within The Scarlet Letter, the use of typical Baroque symbols, such as the ellipse and the maze, and the fundamental role of distinctive Baroque tropes, that is, metaphor and antithesis. In ord…