The Dynamics of Confrontation and Connection in The Scarlet Letter: a Passage to America
The term “passages” applies to The Scarlet Letter in two rather different but closely related ways. On the one hand, the word can be applied to the novel’s overall narrative structure in the sense of a voyage, a one-way progress from one world or from one state of being to another. At the same time...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Polysèmes
2017
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The term “passages” applies to The Scarlet Letter in two rather different but closely related ways. On the one hand, the word can be applied to the novel’s overall narrative structure in the sense of a voyage, a one-way progress from one world or from one state of being to another. At the same time, it can also be evoked in the sense of the Parisian passages which intrigued Aragon, as implying a coming and going between separate but connected spaces. The story unfolds according to a linear c... |
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