Date of Award
1981
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract
The "mirror" provides significant structure and imagery in the work of Borges and Hawthorne, as illustrated by Borges' "Averroes' Search" and "The Zahir" and by Hawthorne's "Monsieur du Miroir"' and The Scarlet Letter. Neither author regards the mirrors within or of his art as faithful reflectors of things in the Realistic tradition, nor as faithful reflectors of inner truth in the Romantic tradition; rather, each views his art as he does the objects mirrored by it--as darkened, tarnished, made ambiguous hy human perspective. And yet, because the mirror offers hints of truth and promises of understanding, it continually provokes our contemplation.
Extent
92 p.
Recommended Citation
HAGER, STANTON ROBERT, "ROOMS OF THE LOOKING-GLASS: MIRROR STRUCTURES AND IMAGERY IN BORGES AND HAWTHORNE" (1981). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989. 124.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_3/124
Identifier
FADT14076
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1981.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters