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| Author | : Bethany Layne |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2020-03-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030316505 |
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This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James’s life and works published between 2001 and 2016, the centenary of his death. Part One concentrates on biofictions about James by David Lodge and Colm Tóibín, and those written from the perspective of the key female figures in his life. Part Two explores appropriations of The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Ambassadors. The book articulates the developments in biographical and adaptive writing that enabled millennial writers to engage so explicitly with James, locates the sources of his appeal, and explores the different forms of engagement taken. Layne analyses how these manifestations of James’s legacy might function differently for knowing versus unknowing readers, and how they might perform the role of literary criticism. Overarching themes include ideas of queering, the concern with seeking redress, and the frustrated quest for origin, authenticity, or ‘the real thing’.
| Author | : Kevin J. Hayes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011-04-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521155403 |
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Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews presents the most thorough gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of James' work ever assembled. This collection also reprints many rarely seen notices written by the most important women reviewers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter ends with a checklist of additional reviews not presented here. The introduction surveys the major themes of the reviews and also shows how they personally influenced James and his work.
| Author | : Robert B. Pippin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2001-07-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780521655477 |
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This book argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding.
| Author | : Kevin J. Hayes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 1996-02-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521453868 |
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This is the most thorough gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of Henry James's writing ever assembled.
| Author | : John Carlos Rowe |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2022-07-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1000603539 |
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Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture addresses the interesting revival of Henry James’s works in Anglo-American film adaptations and contemporary fiction from the 1960s to the present. James’s fiction is generally considered difficult and part of high culture, more appropriate for classroom study than popular appreciation. However, this volume focuses on the adaptation of his novels into films, challenging us to understand James’s popular reputation today on both sides of the Atlantic. The book offers two explanations for his persistent influence: James’s literary ambiguity and his reliance on popular culture. “Part I: His Times” considers James’s reliance on sentimental literature and theatrical melodrama in Daisy Miller, Guy Domville, The Awkward Age, and several of his lesser known short stories. “Part II: Our Times” focuses on how James’s considerations of changing gender roles and sexual identities have influenced Hollywood representations of emancipated women in Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show, among others. Recent fiction by authors including James Baldwin and Leslie Marmon Silko also treat Jamesian notions of gender and sexuality while considering his part in contemporary debates about globalization and cosmopolitanism. Both a study of James’s works and a broad range of contemporary film and fiction, Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture demonstrates the continuing relevance of Henry James to our multimedia, interdisciplinary, globalized culture.
| Author | : Henry James |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 604 |
| Release | : 2011-08-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590174321 |
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Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Master, a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first time all the stories that James set in New York City. Written over the course of James’s career and ranging from the deliciously tart comedy of the early “An International Episode” to the surreal and haunted corridors of “The Jolly Corner,” and including “Washington Square,” the poignant novella considered by many (though not, as it happens, by the author himself) to be one of James’s finest achievements, the nine fictions gathered here reflect James’s varied talents and interests as well as the deep and abiding preoccupations of his imagination. And throughout the book, as Tóibín’s fascinating introduction demonstrates, we see James struggling to make sense of a city in whose rapidly changing outlines he discerned both much that he remembered and held dear as well as everything about America and its future that he dreaded most. Stories included: The Story of a Masterpiece A Most Extraordinary Case Crawford’s Consistency An International Episode The Impressions of a Cousin The Jolly Corner Washington Square Crapy Cornelia A Round of Visits
| Author | : David McWhirter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 2010-09-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521514614 |
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The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.
| Author | : Thomas J. Otten |
| Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0814210260 |
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Do the surfaces matter? In this provocative book, A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World, Thomas J. Otten demonstrates that surfaces matter profoundly. Taking seriously the accessories of Henry James's fiction-the china and bric-a-brac, the antique cabinets and tapestries, the ribbons and hats-this book argues that James's famous ambiguity is a material state, an indeterminate zone where the difference between essence and ornament disappears. Ranging between fictions as well-known as The Portrait of a Lady (whose heroine is celebrated for her psychological complexity) and ones as understudied as "Rose-Agathe" (whose heroine is a hairdresser's manikin), Otten suggests that the distinction between what counts as thematic depth and what counts as physical surface is, for James, impossible to maintain. Achieving a superficial reading of Henry James means demonstrating the persistence of the material within the novelist's most conceptual formations of meaning-an argument with important consequences for literary theory, as Otten shows in his concluding chapters. Eloquently written and guided by a perverse love for the superfluous detail, this book makes an important contribution to a fast-growing area of the humanities, one newly committed to the serious study of material culture, the concrete experiences of everyday life, and the history of the physical senses. Book jacket.
| Author | : John H. Pearson |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2010-11-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0271038675 |
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| Author | : Henry James |
| Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1908 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
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After her parents� bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie � solitary, observant and wise beyond her years � is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. What Maisie Knew is a subtle yet devastating portrayal of an innocent adrift in a corrupt society. Part of a relaunch of three James titles.
