History and Poetry in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

本研究主要关注与美国独立时期相关的政治和社会公共主题的讨论。这些主题在霍桑的文学作品研究中一直是一个盲点。本文的研究可以说是一种综合性的研究方法，即对诗歌文学研究中传统的诗歌想象或其散文作品中的诗歌主题进行综合性的研究，因此这将是对霍桑散文作品的一种跨学科的研究。这一研究的跨学科性质在于，“美国文学”研究倾向于将美国作为独立于世界其他地区的本土研究，而关注美洲大陆的原住民和作者本人在生活中接触过的欧洲文化，从而帮助我们了解霍桑时代以外的其他文化。在讨论与我对霍桑作品的讨论有关的象征、象征和圣像时，我将进一步继续使用我迄今为止在研究霍桑时所使用的图像学方法。

This study focuses mainly on the discussion of public themes, political and social, related to the period of American Independence. These themes having been left unnoticed and unstudied and therefore have remained as a blind spot in the general perspective of the study of Hawthorne's literary works. This study can be characterized as a proposal of making synthetic approach to the poetic imagination, an approach traditional in the literary study of poetry, or to poetic themes included in his prose works, and therefore this is going to be an interdisciplinary approach to Hawthorne's prose works. The interdisciplinary nature of this study is, while the study of "American literature" tends to study America locally, as independent of the rest of the world, to pay attention to the former inhabitants in the American continent and European cultures the author himself had made contact with in his life, and therefore help us to understand other kinds of cultures than those limited to Hawthorne's time. In discussing the symbols, emblems and icons, related to my discussion of Hawthorne's works, I am further going to continue utilizing such iconographical methods as I have hitherto employed in my own study of Hawthorne.