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Author | : Anna De Biasio |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2014-09-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443867888 |
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Employing a wide range of interpretive and theoretical approaches, this collection brings together distinguished James scholars from four continents to elicit new and exciting readings of a diverse array of James’s fiction and non-fiction. Through their transformative acts, the essays investigate James’s life-long engagement with cities, places, and tourist sites; offer theoretically informed readings of his work’s textual richness; and explore his intricate involvement with social and cultural issues, such as gender and sexuality, economics, friendship and hospitality, and visual culture. Arranged under rubrics which signal the complex interrelations of Henry James as a historical individual and of the works he authored with a web of social, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical discourses, the contributions collected in this book make a convincing case for the ongoing productivity of James’s oeuvre when interrogated from new critical angles and, therefore, for its enduring centrality to the concerns of literary and cultural studies.
Author | : John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780822321477 |
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Rowe uses recent work on the oppressive treatment of gays, women and children in his analysis of Henry James, arguing that James mounts a critique of bourgeois values and lack of historical consciousness.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Modernista |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9180943772 |
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A young woman starts working as a governess at the isolated estate of Bly outside London. There, she is greeted by the two orphaned children she is to take care of, an ambiguous housekeeper, and an icy, supernatural atmosphere. Soon, a couple of peculiar figures begin to appear unannounced, and a creeping horror tightens its grip on both the governess and the reader. The Turn of the Screw is one of the most classic ghost stories of all time, written by the master of the psychological novel, Henry James. Perhaps more than anyone from his time, James came to inspire our modern horror mythologies, from the image of innocence as evil to schizoid labyrinths a la Roman Polanski. HENRY JAMES [1843-1916] was born in New York but emigrated early to Europe. He is one of the most important names in Anglo-Saxon literature, renowned as a great stylist and as a link between the Victorian era and modernism. Among his most famous novels are The American [1877], Portrait of a Lady [1881], and especially The Turn of the Screw [1898].
Author | : Peter Brooks |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780691129549 |
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Author | : Henry James |
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Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Author | : Richard P. Blackmur |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780811208642 |
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"A bibliographical note: Blackmur's essays on Henry James": p. 243-244. Includes index.
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 | : Brooke Sarno Royse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1992 |
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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 | : Simone Francescato |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art in literature |
ISBN | : 9783034301633 |
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This book examines the role and the meaning of collecting in the fiction of Henry James. Emerging as a refined consumerist practice at the end of the nineteenth century, collecting not only set new rules for appreciating art, but also helped to shape the aesthetic tenets of major literary movements such as naturalism and aestheticism. Although he befriended some of the greatest collectors of the age, in his narrative works James maintained a sceptical, if not openly critical, position towards collecting and its effects on appreciation. Likewise, he became increasingly reluctant to follow the fashionable trend of classifying and displaying art objects in the literary text, resorting to more complex forms of representation. Drawing from classic and contemporary aesthetics, as well as from sociology and material culture, this book fills a gap in Jamesian criticism, explaining how and why James's aversion towards collecting was central to the development of his fiction from the beginning of his career to the so-called major phase.