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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b7881801.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "viii, 204 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Hawthorne's narrative strategies.".
- catalog identifier "0878057617 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hawthorne's narrative strategies.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,".
- catalog relation "Hawthorne's narrative strategies.".
- catalog subject "813/.3 20".
- catalog subject "Fiction Technique.".
- catalog subject "Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 Technique.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric) History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "PS1891 .D86 1995".
- catalog subject "Reader-response criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Hawthorne's narrative strategies / Michael Dunne.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".