The Notion of the Gaze in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and in Ezra Pound’s Poetry.

علوان, عنود عذنان (2018) The Notion of the Gaze in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and in Ezra Pound’s Poetry. Masters thesis, جامعة الشرق الاوسط.

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Abstract

The gaze as a concept and a theory has been the field of study for many literary scholars and recently the concern of the movie making industry. American literature has always been a rich source for the gazing concept and is the inspiring for producing top quality moving media. Although, Hawthorne‘s The Scarlet Letter is loaded with various types of gazing situations that make it the ideal model for study in this field, there are really humble contributions in analyzing the gaze theory and beauty in such a novel. This study is hopefully going to be a small contribution towards discussing the gazing situations in Hawthorne‘s The Scarlet Letter. The same is to be told about Ezra Pound‘s legacy of poems which are also good literary samples of the power of gaze and their effect on the beauty of such work. The study also covers the empirical studies that applied such studies especially those related to the novel The Scarlet Letter and some of Pound‘s poems. This thesis includes the analysis of various types of gaze in both Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s masterpiece The Scarlet Letter and some of Ezra Pound‘s poetry such as the active female gaze, the subconscious and conscious gaze, the silent gaze and the speaking gaze. Key words: gaze, female gaze, silent gaze, and subconscious gaze.

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