The Style of Hawthorne's Gaze - Regarding Subjectivity (Paperback, 2)

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 antitechnological 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 the camera obscura and perspective in general, to its 19thcentury 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, MerleauPonty, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida can provide fresh insights into the sophisticated style of Hawthorne's perception of and system for representing reality.

General

Imprint:	The University of Alabama Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	July 2014
Authors:	John Dolis
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	2
ISBN-13:	978-0-8173-5791-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-8173-5791-2
Barcode:	9780817357917

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