The Style of Hawthorne's Gaze: Regarding Subjectivity - Rilegato

Dolis, John

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ISBN 10: 0817306811 ISBN 13: 9780817306816

Casa editrice: Univ of Alabama Pr, 1993

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The Style of Hawthorne’s Gaze is an unusual and insightful work that employs a combination of critical strategies drawn from art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and contemporary aesthetic and literary theory to explore Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrative technique and his unique vision of the world. Dolis studies Hawthorne’s anti-technological and essentially Romantic view of the external world and examines the recurring phenomena of lighting, motion, aspectivity, fragmentation, and imagination as they relate to his descriptive techniques.

Dolis sets the world of Hawthorne’s work over and against the aesthetic and philosophical development of the world understood as a view”, from its inception in thecamera obscura and perspective in general, to its 19th-century articulation in photography. In light of this general technology of the image, and drawing upon a wide range of contemporary critical theories, Dolis begins his study of Hawthorne at the level of description, where the world of the work first arises in the reader’s consciousness. Dolis shows how the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida can provide fresh insights into the sophisticated style of Hawthorne’s perception of and system for representing reality.

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"The Style of Hawthorne's Gaze" employs a combination of critical strategies drawn from art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and contemporary aesthetic and literary theory to explore Nathaniel Hawthorne's narrative technique and his unique vision of the world. Dolis studies Hawthorne's anti-technological and essentially Romantic view of the external world and examines the recurring phenomena of lighting, motion, aspectivity, fragmentation, and imagination as they relate to his descriptive techniques. Dolis sets the world of Hawthorne's work over and against the aesthetic and philosphical development of the world understood as a "view", from its inception in the "camera obscura" and perspective in general, to its 19th century articulation in photography. In the light of this general technology of the image, and drawing upon a wide range of contemporary critical theories, Dolis begins his study of Hawthorne at the level of description, where the world of the work first arises in the reader's consciousness. Dolis shows how the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida can provide insights into the style of Hawthorne's perception of and system for representing reality.

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• Editore: Univ of Alabama Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0817306811
• ISBN 13: 9780817306816
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 271