Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
American Memory In Henry James
Download American Memory In Henry James full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online American Memory In Henry James ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis American Memory in Henry James by : William Righter
Download or read book American Memory in Henry James written by William Righter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Memory in Henry James is about the cultural, historical and moral dislocations at the heart of Henry James' explorations of American identity - between power and love; modernity and history; indeterminate social forms and enduring personal values. The text covers the power, and the limits, of the language of morality and interpretive imagination as James grapples with what America and Europe have in common; and also with what, because their contexts and sense of history are so profoundly different, they cannot have in common. Righter's great theme is the tensions that impelled James ultimately to stretch the novel, his beloved 'prodigious form', almost to breaking point, in search of an ultimately elusive synthesis. The American Scene - his account of an America, revisited after long absence, that was reinventing itself right down to the touchstones of its identity - is its entry point; The Golden Bowl is its primary testing ground. The questions raised transcend the historical moment and the specifically Jamesian sense of dislocation, to go to the heart of modern identity, and the nature of literary endeavour.
Book Synopsis American Memory in Henry James by : William Righter
Download or read book American Memory in Henry James written by William Righter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Memory in Henry James is about the cultural, historical and moral dislocations at the heart of Henry James' explorations of American identity - between power and love; modernity and history; indeterminate social forms and enduring personal values. It is about the power, and the limits, of the language of morality and interpretive imagination as James grapples with what America and Europe have in common and what, because their contexts and sense of history are so profoundly different, they cannot have in common. Its great theme is the tensions that impelled James ultimately to stretch the novel, his beloved prodigious form , almost to breaking point, in search of an ultimately elusive synthesis. The American Scene - his account of an America, revisited after long absence, that was reinventing itself right down to the touchstones of its identity - is its entry point; The Golden Bowl is its primary testing ground. Part I sets the scene, exploring the evolution through which James, the passionate explorer of Europe's composite historic light , comes to a troubled reinterpretation of America through Europe. Part II is a reading of the cultural, aesthetic and moral conflicts in The Ambassadors. Parts III and IV explore in detail the contradictory moral, cultural and philosophical pressures in The Golden Bowl. Finally, Part V returns to the Jamesian sense of history, and of America, which were implicit in 'American City' both as cultural project, and as emblem of incommensurate values. In his last unfinished projects, James wrestled with the creation of a semblance of intelligible unity and moral identity from the raw material of a radically altered 'new America' which fascinated and appalled him. If the imagination and representational powers that produced the Bowl ultimately failed, it was a failure that opens up questions about the limits of language. These are questions that transcend the historical moment and the specifical
Book Synopsis A Small Boy and Others by : Henry James
Download or read book A Small Boy and Others written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York Revisited written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York Revisited, first published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1906, Henry James describes turn-of-the-century New York in vivid detail. Although written in 1904-1905, when James returned to the U.S. after living abroad for more than 20 years, the essay is as pertinent today as it was 100 years ago. The text appears as it was originally published and is enhanced with period illustrations and photographs. Beautifully bound and with a spectacular view of the Flatiron building on the cover, this book is a literary treasure.
Book Synopsis Henry James's Europe by : Dennis Tredy
Download or read book Henry James's Europe written by Dennis Tredy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequentlywrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. Theplight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophisticationbecame a regular theme in his fiction.This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world's leadingJames scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author's crossculturalaesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception ofEurope - of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists andthinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics - which ultimately lead to a profoundreevaluation of his writing.With in-depth analysis of his works of fiction, his autobiographical andpersonal writings, and his critical works, the collection is a major contribution to current thinking about James, transtextuality and cultural appropriation.
Book Synopsis The Sense of the Past / by Henry James by : Henry James
Download or read book The Sense of the Past / by Henry James written by Henry James and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a novel by the American writer Henry James, first published in 1917. The novel explores themes of time, memory, and the nature of art, and is notable for its complex narrative structure and psychological insight. Percy Lubbock was a friend and biographer of James, and his introduction adds valuable context to the novel. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Henry James. An Alien’s “History” of America by : MARTHA BANTA
Download or read book Henry James. An Alien’s “History” of America written by MARTHA BANTA and published by Sapienza Università Editrice. This book was released on 2016 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Banta’s Henry James: An Alien’s “History” of America is the product of a lifetime of thinking about James and his odd, but oddly productive, relation to the land of his birth. A “biography” of an “autobiography,” it serves as a peripatetic history of the central cross-currents and intersections between Europe and America, memory and history, romance and realism. These diverse elements structure James’s channeling of his own experience as a displaced or “alienated” American into a variety of genres: memoirs and travel writing, novels and tales, letters and literary criticism, social and cultural commentary. Together they constitute the “never completed novel” of his ongoing “autobiographical” project. In its masterful weaving together of materials, text, and time-frames, Henry James: An Alien’s “History” of America moves fluidly back and forth over the intricate tapestry of James’s life and texts. It identifies and analyzes key moments, words, and tropes that echo across the years, tracing the instances of repetition, reversal, self-revelation, and re-vision that underwrite this “life-record.” This study represents a major advance over conventional, sometimes oversimplified readings of James’s “international theme.” His attitudes about both Europe and America emerge here in their full complexity and contradictoriness. The breadth and depth of Banta’s knowledge of James and of the historical America from which he emerged and which he never ceased to engage, however ambivalently, will make this a rich reading experience for general readers as well as scholars. David McWhirter editor of Henry James’s New York Edition: The Construction of Authorship and Henry James in Context.
Book Synopsis Writing the Self by : Peter Collister
Download or read book Writing the Self written by Peter Collister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monograph that re-evaluates the final decade of Henry James' creative life. It examines the narrative of "The American Scene", the autobiographical writing, a number of short stories and two incomplete novels: works which offer contrasting notations of the self.
Download or read book Hawthorne written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes of a Son & Brother by : Henry James
Download or read book Notes of a Son & Brother written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies in Henry James by : Richard P. Blackmur
Download or read book Studies in Henry James written by Richard P. Blackmur and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bibliographical note: Blackmur's essays on Henry James": p. 243-244. Includes index.
Download or read book Henry James written by Sheldon M. Novick and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2007 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Timescompared Sheldon M. Novick'sHenry James: The Young Masterto "a movie of James's life, as it unfolds, moment to moment, lending the book a powerful immediacy." Now, inHenry James: The Mature Master, Novick completes his super, revelatory two-volume account of one of the world's most gifted and least understood authors, and of a vanished world of aristocrats and commoners. Using hundreds of letters only recently made available and taking a fresh look at primary materials, Novick reveals a man utterly unlike the passive, repressed, and privileged observer painted by other biographers. Henry James is seen anew, as a passionate and engaged man of his times, driven to achieve greatness and fame, drawn to the company of other men, able to write with sensitivity about women as he shared their experiences of love and family responsibility. James, age thirty-eight as the volume begins, basking in the success of his first major novel,The Portrait of a Lady, is a literary lion in danger of being submerged by celebrity. As his finances ebb and flow he turns to the more lucrative world of the stage-with far more success than he has generally been credited with. Ironically, while struggling to excel in the theatre, James writes such prose masterpieces asThe Wings of the DoveandThe Golden Bowl. Through an astonishingly prolific life, James still finds time for profound friendships and intense rivalries.Henry James: The Mature Masterfeatures vivid new portraits of James's famous peers, including Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Louis Stevenson; his close and loving siblings Alice and William; and the many compelling young men, among them Hugh Walpole and Howard Sturgis, with whom James exchanges professions of love and among whom he thrives. We see a master converting the materials of an active life into great art. Here, too, as one century ends and another begins, is James's participation in the public events of his native America and adopted England. As the still-feudal European world is shaken by democracy and as America sees itself endangered by a wave of Jewish and Italian immigrants, a troubled James wrestles with his own racial prejudices and his desire for justice. With the coming of world war all other considerations are set aside, and James enlists in the cause of civilization, leaving his greatest final works unwritten. Hailed as a genius and a warm and charitable man-and derided by enemies as false, effeminate, and self-infatuated-Henry James emerges here as a major and complex figure, a determined and ambitious artist who was planning a new novel even on his deathbed. InHenry James: The Mature Master, he is at last seen in full; along with its predecessor volume, this book is bound to become t
Book Synopsis Psychology in the Fiction of Henry James by : Teckyoung Kwon
Download or read book Psychology in the Fiction of Henry James written by Teckyoung Kwon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology in the Fiction of Henry James: Memory, Emotions, and Empathy focuses on the study of consciousness, also examines new ways to read fiction from a scientific perspective, one that draws upon early psychological theories and recent neuroscientific research. Freud and William James stand together as intellectual pioneers who contributed to our understanding of the revolutionary concept of consciousness. Meanwhile, Henry James devoted his life to the development of narrative methods that would extend the realm of Realism: a pursuit that led him to draw upon consciousness and experience alike. When examining these three figures, the key components of consciousness that they shared in common turn out to be memory, emotions, and empathy. This volume deals with theoretical works on those three concepts by the works of Freud, William James, and recent neuroscientists, as well as two narrative techniques Henry James devised to represent consciousness: ghosts and Free Indirect Discourse. Additionally, this book is an analysis of Henry’s major fictions to show how those scientific terms have been used to achieve a fresh reading of his novels. Overall, this volume demonstrates that the three components are elements in the dual-aspect monism that Freud proposed earlier.
Download or read book What Maisie Knew written by Henry James and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1908 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Henry James' Travel by : Mirosława Buchholtz
Download or read book Henry James' Travel written by Mirosława Buchholtz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’ idea and practice of travel from the perspective of the globalized world today. Each chapter addresses a different selection of James’ fiction and non-fiction and offers a different approach towards the ideas that are still with us today: history reflected in art and architecture, the tourist gaze, museum culture, transnationalism, and the return home. As a whole, the book encompasses both early and late fiction and non-fiction by Henry James, giving the reader a sense of how his idea of travel evolved over several decades of his creative activity and shows how thin the line between fiction and non-fiction travel writing really is.
Book Synopsis The American Henry James (Short Stories, Classics, Literature) [Annotated] by : Henry James
Download or read book The American Henry James (Short Stories, Classics, Literature) [Annotated] written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876-77 and then as a book in 1877.
Download or read book The Real Thing written by Henry James and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perfectly wrought little tale of a painter struggling with his muse brings together a number of the most important themes that renowned American writer Henry James returned to again and again in his work -- the difficulty of artistic expression, the meaning of truth, and conflict between socioeconomic classes.
![Download The American Henry James (Short Stories, Classics, Literature) [Annotated] PDF Online Free](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/x6BzzgEACAAJ?fife=w200-h370)
