Henry James And The Poetics Of Duplicity

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Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity

Author : Annick Duperray
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443866431
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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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.

Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Dennis Tredy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527535452
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century written by Dennis Tredy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate the recent centennial of Henry James’s death and to help readers understand the depth and scope of the author’s influence both today and during the previous century, thirty leading Jamesian scholars from twelve different countries and five continents were asked to explore ways in which the notions of ‘heritage’ and ‘transmission’ currently come into play when reading James. The resulting chapters of this volume are divided into three main sections, each focusing on different ways in which James’s legacy is being re-evaluated today—from his influence on key authors, playwrights and film-makers over the past century (Part One), to new discoveries regarding European authors and artists who influenced James (Part Two), to recent approaches more radically re-evaluating James for the twenty-first century, including contemporary poetics, political and sociological dimensions, cognitive science, and queer studies (Part Three). This collection will be of great interest to scholars and general readers of James, and is a useful guide to tracing the writer’s ever-elusive ‘figure in the carpet’ and understanding the power of his continued impact today.

Generous Mistakes

Author : Michael Anesko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192513990
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Generous Mistakes written by Michael Anesko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By combining the techniques of textual criticism and the insights of close reading, Generous Mistakes offers new perspectives not only on two of Henry James's major novels (The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors) but also on the process by which they became the books we know—or think we know. Through a better understanding of the conditions of production that affected James's author function, we achieve a deeper appreciation of the historical contingencies of his artistry. Closely examining new forms of evidence (even fingerprints), Generous Mistakes contends that authorship is a hybrid construction, a sometimes unpredictable sequence of different forms of practice, each of which contributes meaningfully to the texts we read and analyze. Offering a sustained examination of the 'textual condition' of James's work—going beyond the relatively familiar ground of authorial revision—this study brings into sharper focus the complex and sometimes arbitrary factors that contributed to the making of two masterpieces of modern fiction and to the legend of the master who wrote them.

Writing Life

Author : Mhairi Pooler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781381976
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Writing Life written by Mhairi Pooler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers' lives are endlessly fascinating for the reading public and literary scholars alike. By examining the self-representation of authors across the schism between Victorianism and Modernism via the First World War, this study offers a new way of evaluating biographical context and experience in the individual creative process at a crucial point in world and literary history. Writing Life explores how and why a select group of early twentieth-century writers, including Edmund Gosse, Henry James, Siegfried Sassoon and Dorothy Richardson, adapted the model of the German Romantic Künstlerroman, or artist narrative, for their autobiographical writing. Instead of (mis)reading these autobiographies as historical documentation, Pooler examines how these authors conduct a Romantic-style conversation about literature through literature as a means of reconfirming the role of the artist in the face of shifting values and the cataclysm of the Great War.

Exploring Seriality on Screen

Author : Ariane Hudelet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100020135X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Seriality on Screen written by Ariane Hudelet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book historicizes and contextualizes the notion of seriality, combining narratological, aesthetic, industrial, philosophical, and political perspectives, showing how seriality as a paradigm informs media convergence and resides at the core of cinema and television history. By associating theoretical considerations and close readings of specific works, as well as diachronic and synchronic approaches, this volume offers a complex panorama of issues related to seriality including audience engagement, intertextuality and transmediality, cultural legitimacy, authorship, and medium specificity in remakes, adaptations, sequels, and reboots. Written by a team of international scholars, this book highlights a diversity of methodologies that will be of interest to scholars and doctoral students across disciplinary areas such as media studies, film studies, literature, aesthetics, and cultural studies. It will also interest students attending classes on serial audiovisual narratives and will appeal to fans of the series it addresses, such as Fargo, Twin Peaks, The Hunger Games, Bates Motel, and Sherlock.

Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West

Author : Choon-Hee Kim
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527546454
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West written by Choon-Hee Kim and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work and influenced his legacy through the themes of Jamesian cultural anxiety between and beyond spatio-temporal boundaries. As such, each chapter constructs a mode of reading to map and formulate one’s own cultural perspective in various contexts relying on their unique engagement with James’s and Jamesian creative acts of writing—aesthetics and science, the (auto-)biographical as social aspects, genre as literary-social context, the artistic and the economic, editorship and readership, and Asian perspectives on cultural influences and identities—to generate insights and establish new intercultural understandings. These are the traces of the contributors’ national, social, cultural consciousness that allow the definition of the Jamesian worldview as a particularly universal one in a global context.

Why It's OK to Be of Two Minds

Author : Jennifer Church
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000052931
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why It's OK to Be of Two Minds written by Jennifer Church and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us experience the world through competing perspectives. A job or a religion seems important and fulfilling when looked at in one way, but from a different angle they seem tedious or ridiculous. A friend is obtuse from one point of view, wise from another. Continuing to hold both views at once can be unsettling, highlighting conflicts between our own judgments and values and undermining our ability to live purposefully and effectively. Yet, as Jennifer Church argues in this book, inner conflict can be a good thing, and not just as a temporary road bump on the road to resolution. This book describes several desirable types of “double consciousness” – or being of two minds – and explains why and how they should be maintained. Church looks critically at some common ideas about identity, including a popular belief about narratives that suggests our lives should “make sense” as a story. She also examines how empathy can helpfully cause us to be of two minds, and how various forms of irony and laughter enable us to benefit from holding onto opposing views. Finally, Church shows the merit of acknowledging reality while sometimes being guided by fantasy. Why It’s OK to Be of Two Minds is for anyone who’s held two opposing views simultaneously, which is to say it’s for everyone. Key Features • Argues against a long-standing philosophical idea: that it is important to resolve inner conflicts that result from competing systems of beliefs. • Examines the role of empathy and friendship in maintaining a valuable form of double consciousness. • Considers how irony and laughter allow us to dedicate ourselves to our particular projects while acknowledging their ultimate insignificance. • Shows how fantasies that conflict with our beliefs can make a positive contribution to the way we live our lives.

Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story

Author : Jeff Birkenstein
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793629897
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story written by Jeff Birkenstein and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary short story has attained. This collection provides original analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as some that might be more unfamiliar. Each essay is purposely crafted to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matter, themes, and approaches that both Russian and American short story writers explored across borders and time. Stories by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Krzhizhanovsky as well as short stories by Washington Irving, Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates populate this essential, multivalent collection. Perhaps more important now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, these essays will remind readers how much Russian and American culture share, as well as the extent to which their respective literatures are deeply intertwined.

The Finer Grain

Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Finer Grain written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Superficial Reading of Henry James

Author : Thomas J. Otten
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814210260
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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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.

Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies

Author : P. Rawlings
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023028888X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies written by P. Rawlings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores landmark criticism on a writer who continues to command critical attention. In addition to mapping out the existing critical terrain, these essays offer a sense of future trajectories in James studies. Essays consider James' own criticism and theories of narrative and architecture, James' letters, money and globalization.

The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James

Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Partial Portraits

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partial Portraits written by Henry James and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1970 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partial portraits examines the work of a range of authors, such as Emerson, Eliot, Trollope, and Stevenson. It includes one of James's most famous essays, The Art of Fiction, in which he argues that writers should not be limited in their subject matter, and that the only obligation a writer has is to make the work interesting.

The Complete Novels of Henry James

Author : Henry James
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6821 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Novels of Henry James written by Henry James and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 6821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Novels of Henry James offers a remarkable collection of the iconic author's literary works, showcasing his intricate plots, complex characters, and vivid descriptions. James' novels are known for their exploration of psychological depth and social nuances, set against the backdrop of the 19th century. His writing style is characterized by its intricate prose, subtle use of language, and detailed character development, making each novel a rich and rewarding read for those interested in classic literature. Henry James, a prominent figure in American and British literature, drew inspiration from his own experiences growing up between the two countries. His keen observations of society and human nature are evident in his works, as he delves into themes of class, gender, and relationships with great insight and sensitivity. I highly recommend The Complete Novels of Henry James to readers who appreciate sophisticated storytelling, compelling characters, and thought-provoking themes. This collection offers a comprehensive look into the masterful world of one of the greatest novelists in literary history, making it a must-read for fans of classic literature and those seeking timeless tales of human experience.

The Uncollected Henry James

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786712724
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Uncollected Henry James written by Henry James and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of previously unpublished stories by Henry James presents stories James apparently published under pseudonyms that have been recently connected to the author.

Henry James and the Past

Author : Ian F. A. Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134908056X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Henry James and the Past written by Ian F. A. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the work of Henry James. Topics covered range from commodity and style in "Washington Square", to the peculiarity of social life in "The Bostonians". Other works by the author include "Ezra Pound: Tactics for Reading" and "Henry James's Fiction as History".

The Complete Tales of Henry James (Volume 10 of 12)

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781420938975
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Tales of Henry James (Volume 10 of 12) written by Henry James and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James (1843-1916) was an America-born English writer whose novels, short stories and letters established the foundation of the modernist movement in twentieth century fiction and poetry. His career, one of the most significant and influential in English literature, spanned over five decades and resulted in a body of work that has had a profound impact on generations of writers. Born in New York, but educated in France, Germany, England and Switzerland, James often explored the cultural discord between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (United States) in his writings. Included in this tenth volume of "The Complete Tales of Henry James" are the following stories: "The Turn of the Screw," "In the Cage," "Covering End," "The Given Case," "Covering End," "The Given Case," "The Great Condition," "Europe," "Paste," and "The Real Right Thing."