Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe : Critical Essays in Honor of Darrel AbelGary Richard Thompson, Virgil Llewellyn Lokke Purdue University Press, 1981 - 383 Seiten 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. |
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Hawthornes Literal Figures | 71 |
Romantic Iconology in The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance | 93 |
Coleridgean Assumptions in Hawthornes Tales and Sketches | 109 |
Rappaccinis Daughter and the NineteenthCentury Physician | 129 |
Melville and Goethes Demonic | 205 |
The Redemptive Humor of the ConfidenceMan and The ConfidenceMan | 245 |
Israfel Reconsidered | 283 |
A Misreading of Poes The Fall of the House of Usher | 303 |
Structures of Heightened Consciousness in The Fall of the House of Usher | 313 |
Trust the Teller | 341 |
The Storytellers Art | 355 |
Contributors | 375 |
Hawthrones Transition from Public Doctrines to Private Truths | 143 |
III | 171 |
A Critical and Bibliographical Survey of the HawthorneMelville Relationship | 173 |
Selected Bibliography | 379 |
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