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Titre Hawthorne au musée : le savoir et la forme de l'oeuvre dans « A Virtuoso's Collection »
Auteur Bruno Monfort, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais
Mir@bel Revue Revue française d'études américaines
Numéro no 71, janvier 1997 Sciences & savoir dans la littérature américaine au XIXe siècle.
Page 13 pages
Résumé anglais This paper explores the textual and narrative strategies devised by Hawthorne to subvert the assumption underlying the conception of the past as an object to be reconstructed by historical knowledge. In a museum historically arranged, the succession of events through time can be duplicated as a succession of objects. Hawthorne 's tale represents the museum as a convenient fallacy, and offers the collection as the more adequate paradigm for the way in which we actually come into contact with the past, through memory and imagination combined. Moreover, the collection provides a pattern after which Hawthorne 's own career as a writer can be conceived.
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Article en ligne https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1997_num_71_1_1672