Classic American Texts - Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, with an Introduction by Douglas Grant Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, with an Introduction by Michael Millgate Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, edited with an Introduction by John A. Woods William Dean Howells: A Hazard of New Fortunes, with an Introduction by Tony Tanner (“Classic American Texts” General Editor: Douglas Grant, London, O.U.P., 1965, 21s. each)

Author(s):  
Brian Way
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (66) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Alessandra Leles Rocha ◽  
Fernanda Aquino Sylvestre

<p>Se a literatura imita a vida, tal fato se torna mais fácil de compreender quando se debruça sobre as perspectivas literárias em torno de fenômenos sociais extremamente impactantes, como foi o Colonialismo e o Pós-Colonialismo, os quais trazem à luz o lugar de fala de colonizados e colonizadores e o modo como isso repercute ao longo do tempo sobre as identidades nacionais e individuais. Considerando a temática da religião, este artigo abre possibilidades para uma análise da literatura quanto aos reflexos do poder religioso em <em>A Letra Escarlate (The Scarlet Letter)</em>, de <em>Nathaniel Hawthorne</em>, e em <em>Hibisco Roxo (Purple Hibiscus), </em>de <em>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</em>; o que significa discutir a influência da religião nas “transformações sociais, relações de poder, de classe, de gênero, de raça/etnia” (SOUZA, 2004, p. 122). Assim, tal influência mostrada literariamente permanece impactando a sociedade.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 474
Author(s):  
Ramtin Noor-Tehrani (Noor) Mahini ◽  
Erin Barth

Published in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the dark romantic story of The Scarlet Letter was immediately met with success, and Hawthorne was recognized as the first fictional writer to truly represent American perspective and experience. At the time when most novelists focused on portraying the outside world, Hawthorne dwelled deeply in the innermost, hidden emotional and mental psyches of his characters. Despite being acquainted to both famed transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and married to the transcendentalist painter Sophia Peabody, Hawthorne was often referred to as anti-transcendentalist or dark romantic writer in The Scarlet Letter. Is he also influenced by the transcendentalist movement in his famed novel?  Evidence shows that he is more transcendentalist than anti-transcendentalist in The Scarlet Letter.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
M. Yuseano Kardiansyah

This research analyzes postcolonial discourse about body and gender relation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter that tells about obsession toward morality, gender oppression, punishment for sinner, guilty feeling dan individual sin confession. The objective of this research is to reveal the resistance sides toward colonial construction that still exist in society’s social order and norm reflected in that novel. By applying postcolonialism approach and deconstruction method, it is proven that The Scarlet Letter depicts colonized (women) resistance behind its attitude and practice that seems submissive to the power of colonizer (society dan men’s domination).Key Words: Postcolonial Discourse, Body, Gender Relation, Deconstruction, Colonial Construction


2015 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria O’Malley

Shifting the emphasis within feminist criticism from the act of speech to the act of hearing, this article argues that, in The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals how the public sphere depends on the voices of dispossessed women even as it attempts to silence them.


2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-256
Author(s):  
Julie Arsenault

Marie Canavaggia est l’une des traductrices en vue des oeuvres majeures des littératures américaine et anglaise au XXe siècle. Le rôle qu’elle a joué et l’influence qu’elle a eue en France et dans les pays francophones ont permis aux lecteurs français de découvrir les grands textes des littératures de langue anglaise. Notre réflexion sur cette importante traductrice s’inscrit dans le cadre de la théorie sociologique de Pierre Bourdieu adaptée à la traductologie et, accessoirement, dans celui de certaines idées d’Antoine Berman en traduction littéraire. Nous avons tenté de saisir l’habitus – notion que nous avons préalablement définie – de Marie Canavaggia en examinant sa biographie (les données biographiques factuelles en particulier) ainsi qu’en présentant une analyse contrastive de l’une de ses traductions reconnues, La Lettre écarlate de Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nous concluons en dégageant les éléments qui permettent de mieux cerner l’influence de Marie Canavaggia sur la littérature française et sur la traduction dans le domaine littéraire.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Xiaohan Mei

In Nathaniel Hawthorne' s literary creation, the usages of space are usually highlighted by Hawthorne' s arrangement of the settings, scenes and social background. In The Scarlet Letter, according to the spatial turn in 20th spatial theories—especially the spatial theory of Lefebvre, Nathaniel Hawthorne constructed three spaces in this romance novel: the material space, spiritual space and social space. These three kinds of space are not simply juxtaposed, but are intervening, intermingling, superimposing each other, and sometimes even contradicting each other. It is through the construction of space that Hawthorne combines serious moral content with excellent artistic expressions, giving The Scarlet Letter its powerful vitality and enduring charm. It is also through the construction of space that the theme and meaning of the novel about the human spiritual ecological crisis is better manifested, and shows Hawthorne's contemplation and transcendence of the real world. In the process of interpreting the space construction of The Scarlet Letter, readers can appreciate the narrative techniques and artistic effects of the text, and then examine the social reality that the novel should express.


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