RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Purificación y violencia en los relatos de Nathaniel Hawthorne A1 Barrio Marco, José Manuel K1 Historia de América K1 America-History K1 Filología K1 Philology AB Hawthorne made himself a writer analysing his own puritanical individualisin and the historical past of New England. As many American writers he started his literary carear writing short stories, more than fifty between 1830 and 1850. In this short fiction we can see all the strength of his style: a combination of allegory, simbolism and ambiguity. Hawthorne belonged to no church but he was a perfectionist and he belteved that man was, by nature, sinful and required regeneration. In his short stories this regeneration (purification) is obtained by four different ways of violence:social, religious, psychological and physical violence. A Violence that nearly always endsin tragedy. PB Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Servicio de Publicaciones YR 1996 FD 1996 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/4951 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/4951 LA spa DS MINDS@UW RD 23-abr-2024