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Ullen, Magnus. The Half-Vanished Structure: Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics.(Book review)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
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September 22, 2006
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Ullen, Magnus. The Half-Vanished Structure: Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004. 450 pp. $76.95.
This brilliantly analytical and perceptive study of Hawthorne's wrestling with "blasted allegories'" and symbolism, as seen in the four romances from The Scarlet Letter to The Marble Faun, deserves to become an indispensable addition to all major Hawthorne criticism. Magnus Ullen examines the structures and themes of the romances in such a subtle and ingenious manner and with such insight that his book often left me breathless and in awe of what he has achieved. The notes alone that I scribbled in the margins could make for another book. That having been ...