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1. 1. The Half-Vanished Structure : Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics

   Författare :Magnus Ullén; Brian Harding; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Nathaniel Hawthorne; American literature; dialectics; history; aesthetics; Christianity; sexuality; the Fortunate Fall; typology; allegory; anagogy; symbolism; chiastic structure; mediation; distance; transcendence; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Invoking Coleridge’s distinction between allegory and symbol, this dissertation makes the case for allegory and symbolism as two divergent perceptual modes. Allegory, it argues, stresses the necessity of perceiving the ideal through the mediation of negation (death), while symbolism flaunts the notion that the ideal can be immediately perceived in the inef-fable realm of the emotions. LÄS MER