Hawthorne's narrative strategies:
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1. Verfasser: Dunne, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippi c1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200) and index
1. Introduction -- 2. Varieties of Narrative Authority in Hawthorne's Twice-told Tales (1837) -- 3. Narrative Voice in the Sketches -- 4. Narrative Levels and Narrative Authority -- 5. Narrativity and Historicity -- 6. Narrative Transformations of Romanticism -- 7. Narrative Transformations of Domesticity -- 8. Conclusion
For more than 150 years readers have interpreted Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction in a dazzling variety of ways. Instead of arguing in favor of or against what these readers conceive the fiction to mean, this examination of Hawthorne's narrative strategies demonstrates how he leads readers to reason as they do
Throughout his career Hawthorne manipulated and experimented with all the elements of narrative discourse, creating texts that continue to cry out for, yet defy, interpretation. In The Marble Faun, just as in his earliest tales and sketches, Hawthorne varies pronouns and verb tenses, often within the same paragraph. In all his works he affirms the factuality of invented incidents in one sentence, then undermines the affirmation in the next. His narrators often confess themselves uncertain about their own narratives. In some of his fiction elements of romantic ideology are proposed as, alternatively, irresistible and foolish. In others, domesticity is represented both as the only avenue to true happiness and as a wishful illusion. Thus, as this study reveals, in Hawthorne's works history proves to be no more reliable than some obvious Gothic convention
Close readers of Hawthorne's narratives feel the compulsion to interpret, although they can do so only by ignoring considerable contradictions. This ploy, however, is Hawthorne's narrative strategy, one that destabilizes the reader by offering interpretive choices that can be accepted only by rejecting other equally plausible choices
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ISBN:0585180040
9780585180045
0878057617
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