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Hawthorne's Romances: Social Drama and the Metaphor of Geometry (Library of Anthropology)
Hawthorne's Romances Social Drama and the Metaphor of Geometry - Library of Anthropology Author:Robert S. Friedman Throughout the nineteenth century, the study of geometry remained at the core of educational curricula in the United States, strongly affecting how educated Americans construed their world. In this book, the author details how each of Nathaniel Hawthorne's romances presents a different geometric figure which becomes representative of the work's ... more »themes and narrative designs. These geometric figures, when approached from the perspective of Victor Turner's symbolic anthropology, serve as cultural mediators, combining geometric symbolism with a unique narrative perspective to offer metaphors of personal and cultural boundaries. This book presents the literary text as the point of intersection among such disciplines as cultural anthropology, history, mathematics, and American literature.« less