The Scarlet letter and Cultural Representation of 17th Century England

红字与17世纪英国的文化表征

基本信息

批准号：
11610508
负责人：
IRIKO Fumiko
金额：
$ 1.73万
依托单位：
Kansai University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
1999
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1999 至 2001
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an author remarkable for his ability, to read and understand historical documents as marvelously as a first-class historian, and he was not, in this respect, an exception among 19th century authors. This is a fact widely recognized even along recent neo-historicist group represented by Michael J. Colacurcio. Historical approach to the Scarlet Letter of which the background is the early 17th century America is still vigorously undertaken. Looking back at the historical study of this romance, however, we cannot but assert that the studies made in this trend, though remarkable in the close attention to the Americanness, fatally suffer from the lack of the respect to the Englishness. Similarly fatal is the failure to make detailed observation of those cultural aspects. a failure due to their partial and prejudiced interest in the political or religious aspects. We may rightly ask if a true, authentic kind of the reading of historical texts could take place among the … More se types of historicists.In this study of Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter, exclusive, focus is thrown on the abundance of cultural representations imported from 17th century England by the first generation of the Puritan immigrants, and this new focus has enabled me to take further steps in the progress of my cultural-oriented study of Hawthorn's literature. This progress may strongly be illustrated in my new approach to the iconographies of the classical melancholy that had attracted people of the Renaissance. Consistent efforts have been made to trace the varieties of those melancholy iconographies. By adopting this new iconographical approach have been able to trace the new "vector" of the idea of "blackness" that was left unnoticed by critics whose minds were totally occupied by the conventional jargons and idioms of Puritanism. What is now left for me to do is publish the total results of my approach to The Scarlet Letter. What I am hereafter to do is to widen the scope of my study to the group of Hawthorne's romances, taking the similar methods of approaching the author's text, but with the wider view, not connect to the antiquated England only but also of more extensive perspective in Italy and other parts of Europe, Less

纳撒尼尔·霍桑是一位出色的作家，他的阅读和理解历史文献的能力就像一流的历史学家一样出色，在这方面，他在 19 世纪的作家中也不例外。即使在近代，这一事实也得到了广泛的认可。以迈克尔·科拉库西奥（Michael J. Colacurcio）为代表的新历史主义派对以17世纪初美国为背景的《红字》的历史研究仍在积极进行，但回顾这段浪漫史的历史研究，我们不能不断言：这一趋势的研究虽然在对美国性的密切关注上引人注目，但致命的是缺乏对英国性的尊重，同样致命的是未能对这些文化方面进行细致的观察，从而导致其失败。对政治或宗教方面的偏见兴趣。我们可能会正确地问，历史决定论者是否可以对历史文本进行真正的、真实的阅读。在对霍桑的《红字》的这项研究中，我们提出了排他性的焦点。就丰富性而言第一代清教徒移民从 17 世纪英国引进的文化表征强烈地存在，这一新的焦点使我能够在以文化为导向的霍索恩文学研究中取得进一步的进展，这一进展可以在我的新方法中得到说明。人们一直在努力追踪那些吸引文艺复兴时期人们的古典忧郁的图像，通过采用这种新的图像学方法，我们能够追踪到这些忧郁的图像。 “黑人”观念的新“载体”，被那些头脑完全被清教主义的传统行话和习语占据的批评家所忽视，现在我要做的就是公布我的方法的总体结果。我此后要做的是将我的研究范围扩大到霍桑的浪漫史，采取类似的方法来研究作者的文本，但视野更广阔，而不是与作者的文本联系起来。仅限于过时的英格兰，但在意大利和欧洲其他地区也有更广泛的视野，更少