tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post5231981283839834152..comments2024-02-05T00:16:13.698-05:00Comments on Banjo52: NOVEMBER 27, 2009. Hawthorne's America, Artists and Intellectuals, Part TwoBanjo52http://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-83074700636113633232009-11-29T22:18:53.451-05:002009-11-29T22:18:53.451-05:00"Ethan Brand," and most of the rest of t..."Ethan Brand," and most of the rest of the Young Goodman Brown collection, is a damn fine story, and I miss teaching it.<br /><br />I wonder if we've lost our appreciation for allegory. Many movies seem all archetypes, no realism, and much fiction seems the reverse. Hawthorne struck a rare and exquisite balance, enriched with a wry humor I could never get my students to appreciate.Barbarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04038516078498541056noreply@blogger.com