緋文字を読む者、『緋文字』を読む者

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When we read Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, we read that characters in the novel read the scarlet letter A. In our act of reading, we find ourselves repeating the characters' act of reading. In other words, the novel itself anticipates our act of reading. This essay attempts to examine how the repetition or anticipation functions, and what it means to us, people who read The Scarlet Letter.
2002-03-01