Michael J Colacurcio
Biographic Data
| ID | 572902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Colacurcio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Colacurcio |
| SIGNATURE | COLACURCIO M J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Supernal Loveliness and Fantastic Foolery: The Esthetic Dimension in Poe and Hawthorne
This essay was a keynote presentation at the 2019 International Hawthorne and Poe Conference in Kyoto, Japan. Comparing and contrasting these celebrated contemporaries in broad yet telling ways, the essay considers in depth the esthetic principles and “dimensions” of the two. As Colacurcio argues, Poe was, firstly, a poet, his religion always the “religion of Beauty.” For Hawthorne, a skeptic and a moral historian, literature and creative enterpr…
Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans
The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales
The American-Renaissance Renaissance
The American Novel
A True Sight of History: Hawthorne and the Sense of the Past
The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales
In this celebrated analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michael J. Colacurcio presents a view of the author as America's first significant intellectual historian. Colacurcio shows that Hawthorne's fiction responds to a wide range of sermons, pamphlets, and religious tracts and debates--a variety of moral discourses at large in the world of provincial New England.Informed by comprehensive historical research, the author shows that Hawthorne was steepe…
The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales
Hawthorne as Perry Miller
The Symbolic and the Symptomatic: D. H. Lawrence in Recent American Criticism
Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson: The Context of the Scarlet Letter
In first brief chapter of The Scarlet Letter, narrator pays almost as much attention to a rose bush as he does to appearance and moral significance of Puritan America's first prison. That wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, contrasts with burdock, pig-weed, appleperu and other unsightly vegetation; yet all flourish together in same congenial soil which so early brought forth the black flower of civilized societ…
Gods Determinations Touching Half-Way Membership: Occasion and Audience in Edward Taylor
Q NE NOW BEGINS A STUDY OF EDWARD TAYLOR taking for granted his Puritan orthodoxy. That orthodoxy must be seen to include more than the five points of the synod of Dort, more than the Cambridge Platform or the Westminster Confession, but there are few New England Puritans whose actual beliefs do not outrun these programs. Thus in studying Taylor one may attend to the morality tradition, the poetics of meditation, the baroque sensibility, perhaps …
Democracy" and "Esther: Henry Adams' Flirtation with Pragmatism
The Dynamo and the Angelic Doctor: The Bias of Henry Adams' Medievalism
man of letters rather than as a professionally committed academician, interpretation of his writing has got far beyond the mere location and description of his scholarly weaknesses.' And rightly so: his importance is unquestionably literary. Thus in discussing some of the eccentric methods and paradoxical conclusions of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres my primary purpose is not to cavil with the ideas expressed there. Still less do I wish to defend…
The Dynamo and the Angelic Doctor: The Bias of Henry Adams' Medievalism
man of letters rather than as a professionally committed academician, interpretation of his writing has got far beyond the mere location and description of his scholarly weaknesses.' And rightly so: his importance is unquestionably literary. Thus in discussing some of the eccentric methods and paradoxical conclusions of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres my primary purpose is not to cavil with the ideas expressed there. Still less do I wish to defend…
The Dynamo and the Angelic Doctor: The Bias of Henry Adams' Medievalism
man of letters rather than as a professionally committed academician, interpretation of his writing has got far beyond the mere location and description of his scholarly weaknesses.' And rightly so: his importance is unquestionably literary. Thus in discussing some of the eccentric methods and paradoxical conclusions of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres my primary purpose is not to cavil with the ideas expressed there. Still less do I wish to defend…
Gods Determinations Touching Half-Way Membership: Occasion and Audience in Edward Taylor
Q NE NOW BEGINS A STUDY OF EDWARD TAYLOR taking for granted his Puritan orthodoxy. That orthodoxy must be seen to include more than the five points of the synod of Dort, more than the Cambridge Platform or the Westminster Confession, but there are few New England Puritans whose actual beliefs do not outrun these programs. Thus in studying Taylor one may attend to the morality tradition, the poetics of meditation, the baroque sensibility, perhaps …
Democracy" and "Esther: Henry Adams' Flirtation with Pragmatism
Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson: The Context of the Scarlet Letter
In first brief chapter of The Scarlet Letter, narrator pays almost as much attention to a rose bush as he does to appearance and moral significance of Puritan America's first prison. That wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, contrasts with burdock, pig-weed, appleperu and other unsightly vegetation; yet all flourish together in same congenial soil which so early brought forth the black flower of civilized societ…
The Symbolic and the Symptomatic: D. H. Lawrence in Recent American Criticism
A True Sight of History: Hawthorne and the Sense of the Past
The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales
In this celebrated analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michael J. Colacurcio presents a view of the author as America's first significant intellectual historian. Colacurcio shows that Hawthorne's fiction responds to a wide range of sermons, pamphlets, and religious tracts and debates--a variety of moral discourses at large in the world of provincial New England.Informed by comprehensive historical research, the author shows that Hawthorne was steepe…
The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales
Hawthorne as Perry Miller
The American Novel
The American-Renaissance Renaissance
The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales
Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans
Supernal Loveliness and Fantastic Foolery: The Esthetic Dimension in Poe and Hawthorne
This essay was a keynote presentation at the 2019 International Hawthorne and Poe Conference in Kyoto, Japan. Comparing and contrasting these celebrated contemporaries in broad yet telling ways, the essay considers in depth the esthetic principles and “dimensions” of the two. As Colacurcio argues, Poe was, firstly, a poet, his religion always the “religion of Beauty.” For Hawthorne, a skeptic and a moral historian, literature and creative enterpr…
Art (10 works) · History (9 works) · Literature (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · American Literature and Humor Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Piety (3 works)