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I Pledge Allegiance to the Embroidered Scarlet Letter and the Barbaric White Leg

I Pledge Allegiance to the Embroidered Scarlet Letter and the Barbaric White Leg

Ford, Jojo

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $31.00

ISBN10: 1647021235
ISBN13: 9781647021238
Publisher: Dorrance Pub Co Inc
Published: Jan 9 2020
Pages: 70
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.31 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

This book represents the author's vision and interest in symbolism using two American icons, Hester Prynne and Captain Ahab. Created by early American authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, the interest in Hester and Ahab has persisted over time in movies, literature and even Broadway plays. The author's passionate analysis of these two characters was sparked by the afflictions she experienced because of her mother's death, her husband's infidelity and her multiple knee surgeries. In analyzing the work, Professor Abe Ravitz of California State University states, This is a thoroughly brilliant work of cultural understanding, literary reference, and critical judgment. Driven, in part, by the author's personal experience, she nevertheless sustains a strong clinical objectivity in assessing the materials over which she roams in an engaging expository manner. In clearly being able to transmogrify the personal into one larger ethos of history, Americana, and cultural DNA, the intelligent analysis herein -- alongside the voluminous research effort required for this product -- the book is absolutely worthy of the highest possible review.

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