212 Pages
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Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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" The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic," writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the A is to see how culture empowers symbolic form, including forms of dissent, and how symbols participate in the dynamics of culture, including the dynamics of constraint." With an approach that both... Read more
One: The A-Politics of Ambiguity; Two: The Ironies of A-History; Three: The Red Badge of Compromise; Four: The Paradoxes of Dissent; Postscript
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Sacvan Bercovitch
