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Symbolism in American Literature A Study on Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author Name: Jayadev Kar | Format: Paperback | Genre : Letters & Essays | Other Details

In this book an attempt has been made to shed light on symbols, to decode the symbols and to identify the various interpretation it stand for. American literature in general is full of symbols from the days of early settlement to the present day. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain all have used symbols in their respective works. In this book Nathaniel Hawthorne has been taken for study. His magnum opus "The Scarlet Letter" has been analysed from different angles. The symbolic significance of several characters and the ever changing meaning of the word "A" have been vividly studied. The effect of sin and its evil ramifications in human mind have also been analysed from Biblical point of view.

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Jayadev Kar

Jayadev Kar, MA (English), M.Phil (English), MSW, LL.B, is an Indian English poet, writer, statesman, critic, and social worker in the same vein. He has published several articles in journals of national and international repute. He has already two books to his credit out of which"Symbolism in American Literature" is a myth-making work published in 2017 by Scholars' Press, Germany, and available throughout the world. He is currently teaching English literature at D.A.V.(Autonomous) College, Titilagarh, Dist.-Balangir, Odisha, India. Apart from that, he is an approved counsellor of Odisha State Open University, Sambalpur, and IGNOU, New Delhi. Jayadev Kar is a member of ELTAI too.He is also a Human Rights educator certified by Youth for Human Rights International, Los Angeles, USA. For his strategy to check distress migration, he has been felicitated by IPE Global and International Justice Mission in days gone by.

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