BooksThe Office of "The Scarlet Letter", 1991: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Paperback edition, 1993. Lowell Prize of the Modern Languages Association. Reprinted in part in "The Scarlet Letter": Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Ross C. Murfin (Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press: New York, 1991); American Literature, American Culture, ed. Gordon Hutner (Oxford University Press: New York, 1999); and "The Scarlet Letter," ed. Paul Lauter (Houghton Mifflin: New York, 2002); The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings, ed. Leland S. Person (Norton: New York, 2005), pp. 576-597.The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America, 1993: Routledge, New York and London, Paperback edition, 1993. Chinese translation, 2005. (Introduction to Chinese translation) Parts of Books"Of Wise and Foolish Virgins: Hilda Versus Miriam in Hawthorne's Marble Faun," in Studies on "The Marble Faun," ed. David B. Kesterton, 1971: Merrill Publishing Company, Columbus, Ohio, pp. 79-83."Emerson the Prophet: Puritanism, Romanticism, and Auto-American-Biography," in Emerson: Prophecy, Metamorphosis, and Influence, ed. David Levin, 1975: Columbia University Press, New York and London, pp. 1-27. "Fusion and Fragmentation: The American Identity," in The American Identity: Fusion and Fragmentation, ed. Rob Kroes, 1980: Dutch American Studies Association, Amsterdam, pp. 19-45. "The Ideological Context of the American Renaissance," in Forms and Functions of History in American Literature. ed. Rob Kroes, 1980: Dutch American Studies Association, Amsterdam, pp. 19-45. "The Biblical Basis of the American Myth," in The Bible and American Arts and Letters, ed. Giles Gunn, 1983: Fortress Press, Philadelphia, pp. 219-229. "Emerson the Prophet," in Ralph Waldo Emerson: Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom, 1985: Chelsea House, New York, pp. 29-44. "Melville's Pierre. Eine Lektore," Romantik: Literatur und Philosophie, ed. Volker Bohn, 1987: Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, pp. 121-156. "Konsensus und Anarchie -- Die Funktion der Rhetoric fur die Amerikanische Identitat," in Amerikanische Mythen: Zur inneren Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten, ed. Frank Unger, 1988: Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, pp. 309-337. "A retorica como autoridade: puritanismo, a Biblia e o mito da America," in Brasil & EUA: Religiao e Identidade Nacional, ed. Viola Sachs, 1988: Edicoes Graal, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 141-158. "Representing America: The Example of Hester Prynne," in The Early Republic: The Making of a Nation -- The Making of a Culture, ed. Steve Ickringill, 1988: Free University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 29-51. "Die Typologie der Bestimmung Amerikas," in Typologie, ed. Volker Bohn, 1988: Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, pp. 309-337. "Tipologia a Puritan Oj-Angliaban," in A Tipologiai Szimbolizmus, ed. Tibor Fabiny, 1988: Szonyi Etelka, Szeged, pp. 379-412. "Hawthorne's A-Morality of Compromise," in The New American Studies, ed. Philip Fisher, 1991: University of California Press, pp. 43-69. "Hawthorne and the New Historicism," in "The Scarlet Letter": Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Ross C. Murfin, 1991: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, pp. 344-357. "Emerson, Individualism, and the Ambiguities of Dissent," in Emerson: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Lawrence Buell, 1992: Prentice-Hall, NJ, pp. 101-129. "How to Teach Melville's Pierre," in New Perspectives on Melville, ed. Myra Jehlen, 1994: Prentice-Hall, NJ, pp. 116-126. "Discovering America: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" in The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between, ed. Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser, 1996: Stanford University Press, pp. 147-168. "Deadpan Trickster: The American Humor of Huckleberry Finn," in Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction, ed. Jeanne Campbell Reese, 2000: University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, pp. 53-83. "The American Jeremiad," in American Social and Political Thought: A Reader, ed. Andrew Hess, 2002: Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 80-89. "Deadpan Huck; or, What's Funny About Interpretation," in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain, ed. Harold Bloom, 2006: Chelsea House, pp. 104-134. Essays and Articles"The American Scholar, Paragraph 6," Explicator, XXV (1966), NO 9."The Frontier Fable of Hawthorne's Marble Faun," South Dakota Review, IV (1966), pp. 44-50. "Hilda's 'Seven-Branched Allegory': An Echo from Cotton Mather in Hawthorne's Marble Faun," Early American Literature, I (1966), pp. 5-6. "The Philosophical Background to the Fable of Emerson's 'American Scholar'," Journal of the History of Ideas, XXVIII (1967), pp. 123-128. "Endicott's Breastplate: History and Typology in Hawthorne's 'Endicott and The Red Cross'," Studies in Short Fiction, IV (1967), pp. 289-299. "Melville's Search for National Identity: Father and Son in Redburn, Pierre, and Billy Budd," College Language Association Journal, X (1967), pp. 217-228. "Hilda's 'Seven-Branched Allegory': An Echo from Cotton Mather in Hawthorne's Marble Faun," Early American Literature, I (1966), pp. 5-6. "Empedocles in the English Renaissance," Studies in Philology, LXV (1968), pp. 67-80. "Huckleberry Bumppo: A Comparison of Tom Sawyer and The Pioneers," Mark Twain Journal, XIV (1968), pp. 1-4. "Of Wise and Foolish Virgins: Hilda versus Miriam in Hawthorne's Marble Faun," New England Quarterly, XLI (1968), pp. 1-4. "The Revision of Rowland Mallet," 19th Century Fiction, XXIV (1969), pp. 210-221. "Miriam as Shylock: An Echo from Shakespeare in Hawthorne's Marble Faun," Forum for Modern Language Studies, V (1969), pp. 385-387. "The Image of America: From Hermeneutics to Symbolism," Bucknell Review, XX (1972), pp. 3-12. "The Ritual of American Consensus," Canadian Review of American Studies, X (1979), pp. 271-288. "Response to William A. Clebsch, ' America's Mythique as Redeemer Nation,'" Prospects, IV (1979), pp. 95-99. "The Ritual of American Autobiography: Edwards, Franklin, Thoreau," Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines, VII (1982), pp. 139-150. "How to Read Melville's Pierre," Amerikastudien, XXXI (1986), pp. 31-49. "The A-Politics of Ambiguity in The Scarlet Letter," New Literary History, XIX (1988), pp. 629-654. "Hawthorne's A-Morality of Compromise," Representations, XXIV (1988), pp. 1-27. "Emerson, Individualism, and the Ambiguities of Dissent," South Atlantic Quarterly, LXXXIX (1989), pp. 624-662. "The Scarlet Letter: A Twice-Told Tale," Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, XXII (1996), pp. 1-21. "Hawthorne's A-Morality of Compromise," in American Literature, American Culture, ed. Gordon Hutner, 1999: Oxford University Press, pp. 516-537. "What's Funny About Huckleberry Finn?," New England Review, XX (1999), pp. 8-28. "The American Myth" (transl. Mansu Qian), Foreign Literature Review (Beijing), I (Jan. 2000), pp. 121-127. "Deadpan Huck, or What's Funny About Interpretation" Kenyon Review, XXIV (2002), pp. 90-134; reprinted in Gerald Graff and James Phelan, eds. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy: Beckford/St. Martin. Boston and New York, 2004, pp. 332-356; Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream, vol. 1, ed. Anne Marie Hacht (Thomson, 2007); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain, ed. Harold Bloom, 2006 (Chelsea House) "The Myth of America," Litteraria Pragensia (Prague), XXV (2003), pp. 1-20. "Democratic Aesthetics: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter," Symposium (Olomouc, Czech Republic), 2003, pp. 3-23. |