History and Poetry in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

本研究主要侧重于讨论与美国独立时期有关的公共主题，政治和社会。这些主题一直被忽视和未被研究，因此在霍桑文学作品研究的总体视角中一直是一个盲点。这项研究的特点是提出了一种对诗歌想象的综合研究方法，一种传统的诗歌文学研究方法，或者是对他散文作品中包含的诗歌主题的综合研究方法，因此，这将是对霍桑散文作品的跨学科研究方法。这一研究的跨学科性质在于，“美国文学”的研究倾向于研究本土的、独立于世界其他地方的美国，而关注作者本人一生中所接触到的美洲大陆和欧洲文化的原居民，从而帮助我们了解局限于霍桑时代之外的其他文化。在讨论与我对霍桑作品的讨论相关的符号、象征和图标时，我将进一步继续使用迄今为止我在自己对霍桑的研究中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.