Sacvan Bercovitch: 2 books

Book cover of The Office of Scarlet Letter
by Sacvan Bercovitch
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

"The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic," writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the A is to see how culture empowers symbolic form, including forms of dissent, and how symbols...
Book cover of The Rites of Assent

The Rites of Assent

Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America

by Sacvan Bercovitch
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes of "America"...
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