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Book Synopsis A Superficial Reading of Henry James by : Thomas J. Otten
Download or read book A Superficial Reading of Henry James written by Thomas J. Otten and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Superficial Reading of Henry James by : Thomas J. Otten
Download or read book A Superficial Reading of Henry James written by Thomas J. Otten and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry James in Context by : David McWhirter
Download or read book Henry James in Context written by David McWhirter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.
Download or read book Rose-Agathe (1878) written by Henry James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1878 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, ‘A Tragedy of Error’, in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated to London, where he remained for the vast majority of the rest of his life, becoming a British citizen in 1915. From this point on, he was a hugely prolific author, eventually producing twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories and novellas, as well as literary criticism, plays and travelogues. Amongst James's most famous works are The Europeans (1878), Daisy Miller (1878), Washington Square (1880), The Bostonians (1886), and one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, The Turn of the Screw (1898). We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis The Art of Fiction by : Walter Besant
Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by Walter Besant and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Daily Henry James by : Henry James
Download or read book The Daily Henry James written by Henry James and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as: The Henry James Yearbook. Boston: Gorham Press, 1911, selected and arranged by Evelyn Garnaut Smalley, with an introduction by Henry James and William Dean Howells.
Book Synopsis Reading Henry James by : Louis Auchincloss
Download or read book Reading Henry James written by Louis Auchincloss and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Novels and Tales of Henry James: The American by : Henry James
Download or read book The Novels and Tales of Henry James: The American written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Figure in the Carpet EasyRead Comfort Ed by : Henry James
Download or read book Figure in the Carpet EasyRead Comfort Ed written by Henry James and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James' most celebrated short work in which his excellent craftsmanship is apparent through his skilful employment of irony and humour. This poignant book deals with the innate desires and leanings of the central character, and the complexity of relationships stemming from conflicting human emotions. Touching!
Download or read book The Point of View written by Henry James and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Point of View Henry James - An engrossing tale written in James characteristic elegant style. He delves deep into the hearts and minds of his characters to bring us life-like people with whom the reader can relate. Written in the form of letters, this book deals with complexities and intricacies of human relations. Brilliant!
Book Synopsis Pictures and Other Passages from Henry James by : Henry James
Download or read book Pictures and Other Passages from Henry James written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry James and the Art of Impressions by : John Scholar
Download or read book Henry James and the Art of Impressions written by John Scholar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James criticized the impressionism that was revolutionizing French painting and fiction. He satirized the British aesthetic movement whose keystone was impressionist criticism. So why, time and again in important parts of his literary work, did James use the word 'impression'? Henry James and the Art of Impressions argues that James tried to wrest the impression from the impressionists and to recast it in his own art of the novel. Interdisciplinary in its range, philosophical and literary in its focus, the book shows the place of James's work within the wider cultural history of impressionism. It draws on painting, philosophy, psychology, literature, and critical theory to examine James's art criticism, early literary criticism, travel writing, reflections on his own fiction, and the three great novels of his major phase, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. It shows how the language of impressions enables James to represent the most intense moments of consciousness of his characters. It argues that the Jamesian impression is best understood as a family of related ideas bound together by James's attempt to reconcile the novel's value as a mimetic form with its value as a transformative creative activity.
Book Synopsis Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity by : Annick Duperray
Download or read book Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity written by Annick Duperray and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity aims to advance the field of studies on the life and work of Henry James by fully exploring the author’s use of duplicity, one of the key literary and rhetorical strategies within the author’s vast and infamous arsenal of techniques of ‘ambiguity’. The collection brings together essays by both long established and more recent Jamesian scholars from eleven different countries, the collective work of whom, through this publication, further enhances our grasp of the ever-elusive literary style of Henry James. The prefatory section of this volume provides a general overview of the myriad uses of ‘duplicity’ in the writings of Henry James. The collected essays are then divided into five sections, each providing an in-depth study of a particular use of duplicity as a rhetorical strategy. The first three sections focus on duplicitous devices employed within James’s works of fiction – including the author’s often underhanded use of undisclosed literary sources (‘Duplicitous Subtexts’), his staging of characters who rely on subterfuge and outright lying (‘Duplicitous Characters’), and his creation of doubles and doppelgängers – another key connotation of the term ‘duplicity’ – both within a single work and throughout his literary career (‘Duplicitous Representation’). The two final sections then focus the poetics of duplicity employed in works of non-fiction by James, including his autobiographies and his reviews of other authors, as well as in his personal writings and correspondence. This includes James’s guileful use of duplicity in his representation of himself, particular attention being paid to James’s late works of self-assessment (‘Duplicitous Self-Representation’), as well as in his assessments of other writers in his reviews or of certain places in his travel writing (‘Duplicitous Judgements’). Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity would thus be a great asset to scholars of James at all levels, from the student grappling with James’s literary sleight of hand for the first time, to specialists in the field of James who have long studied the masterful art of James’s literary trickery.
Book Synopsis The Letters of Henry James - by : Henry James
Download or read book The Letters of Henry James - written by Henry James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letters Of Henry James, By Henry James. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels by : Maya Higashi Wakana
Download or read book Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels written by Maya Higashi Wakana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on James's last three completed novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl - Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James's novels radically revises the widespread tradition of putting James's characters into historical and cultural contexts. Wakana begins with the premise that day-to-day living is inherently theatrical and thus duplicitous, and goes on to show that James's art relies significantly on his powerful sense of the agonizing and even dangerous complications of mundane face-to-face rituals that pervade his work. Centrally informed by social thinkers such as G. H. Mead and Erving Goffman, Wakana's study discloses the richness, complexity, and singularity of the interpersonal connections depicted in James's late novels. Persuasively argued, and rich in original close readings, her book makes an important contribution to James's studies and to theories of social interaction.
Book Synopsis The Novels of Henry James by : Elisabeth Luther Cary
Download or read book The Novels of Henry James written by Elisabeth Luther Cary and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Novels of Henry James: A Study After the Work of an important writer has extended over more than a quarter of a century, he becomes, prop erly enough, a subject, if not for final critical judgment, at least for some thing more than cursory consideration. It is time to think of him not as the author of independent Works, each pleasing or displeasing to a sufficiently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public by : Daniel Hannah
Download or read book Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public written by Daniel Hannah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposing a new approach to Jamesian aesthetics, Daniel Hannah examines the complicated relationship between Henry James's impressionism and his handling of 'the public.' Hannah challenges solely phenomenological or pictorial accounts of literary impressionism, instead foregrounding James's treatment of the word 'impression' as a mediatory unit that both resists and accommodates invasive publicity. Thus even as he envisages a breakdown between public and private at the end of the nineteenth century, James registers that breakdown not only as a threat but also as an opportunity for aesthetic gain. Beginning with a reading of 'The Art of Fiction' as both a public-forming essay and an aesthetic manifesto, Hannah's study examines James's responses to painterly impressionism and to aestheticism, and offers original readings of What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove, and The American Scene that treat James's articulation of impressionism in relation to the child, the future of the novel, and shifts in the American national imaginary. Hannah's study persuasively argues that throughout his career James returns to impressionability not only as a site of immense vulnerability in an age of rapid change but also as a crucible for reshaping, challenging, and adapting to the public sphere’s shifting forms.
