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The Figure in the Carpet

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726606593
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry James and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enwrapped in indescribable mysteriousness, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’ (1896) is a short story by the American-born British writer Henry James. It explores the meaning of art and how it is found in what other people see. Hugh Vereker is a famous author who says the secret to his greatness and skill is hidden in his works ‘like a complex figure in a Persian carpet’. When the narrator of the story meets Vereker, he becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning of his favourite author's works. Those who enjoy Henry James' short story will likely find ́Eureka ́ by Anthony Quinn interesting as The Figure is an important part of the plot. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-born, British author, and one of the founders of the school of realism in fiction. His inventive use of interior monologues and unreliable narrators, brought a complexity and depth to his work that made him hugely popular. A prolific writer, he published numerous novels, articles, travel books, biographies and plays. Many of his stories have been adapted for TV and film, such as ‘What Maisie Knew’ (2012) starring Steve Coogan and Julianne Moore. However, it is his celebrated Gothic novella ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (1898), regarded as one of the greatest ghost stories ever written, that has been adapted more than any other. Most recently, the eponymous 2009 BBC TV series starring Michelle Dockery, and the Netflix series, ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ (2020). James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.

Finding the Figure in the Carpet

Author : Lee McKay Johnson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595862055
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Finding the Figure in the Carpet written by Lee McKay Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1896 short story, The Figure in the Carpet, James sets forth a riddle for his critical readers as he approaches the major phase in his career. He imagines a fictional novelist, Hugh Vereker, who tantalizes his critics with the idea of a single thread, a design woven throughout all of his major works, hidden in plain sight. The design, Vereker says, is as obvious as a foot stuck in a shoe but the distinguished novelist is convinced no one will ever see it. One critic, Corvick, however, during a trip to India, has an astonishing flash of revelation: he sees the figure and the discovery is immense. When Corvick returns and shares his epiphany with Vereker, the novelist assures him that his discovery is precisely accurate; there is not a single, wrong note. But Corvick dies in a road accident before he can write his definitive book on Verekers secret design. My study will show the reader that there is a distinct figure in the carpet in the works of Henry James himself. But James only uses the figure in a select group of his major novels and tales, all six of which we will examine here. These major works are all experimental and radical and show James allowing himself the artistic freedom to follow his own arcane and personal path. The pattern is fully manifested in The Turn of the Screw in 1897 and remains the consistent thread all the way through the Masters final completed novel, The Golden Bowl, in 1904. I began writing about the relation of writing to painting and how James translates structural aspects of the silent art of painting into prose. James borrows both silence and simultaneity from the painter, his brother of the brush, and experiments with their narrative equivalents. I saw with increasing clarity that James admiration of the powers of painting led him into depicting nonverbal aspects of consciousness in language. Finally I saw the whole system lock into place; everything fit. The figure in the carpet was revealed as visible silence. With only a minute adjustment of focus I suddenly saw that James narrative pictorial structure that I had been tracing all these years constitutes the figure in the carpet itself. The pictorial pattern literally governs every line, and chooses every word.. James brings the reader into the full consciousness of his character by taking us into the silent radiation of the visible. As readers we experience the silence before language, the silence between words, and the silence after language. In this book I will show my reader how the figure in the carpet operates as the controlling design in every square inch of text in each of James most famous novels and tales.

The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014192196X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, is an inspired joke, a masterpiece of double-entendre that demands the reader’s undivided love and attention and continues to baffle its critics. Also included are ‘The Author of Beltraffio’, an absorbing story of family infighting, authorship and tragedy, and ‘The Private Life’, a spirited tale that considers the contrast between the artist alone and at work. While many of these stories appear to be elaborate Jamesian games, all employ irony and humour to allegorize artistic creation.

The Figure in the Carpet

Author : Henry James
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517299804
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Figure in the Carpet" is a short story published in 1896 in London, by American writer Henry James. The short story is usually referred to as a novella and is told in the first person. The narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention within all the author's works.

The Figure in the Carpet

Author : Henry James
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368301470
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry James and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

The Figure in the Carpet

Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781696376891
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Figure in the Carpet" is a short story by American writer Henry James first published in 1896. It is told in the first person; the narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention of all the author's works.

The Figure in the Carpet

Author : Henry HENRY JAMES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry HENRY JAMES and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HENRY JAMES

The Figure in the Carpet Illustrated

Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet Illustrated written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Figure in the Carpet" is a short story by American writer Henry James first published in 1896. It is told in the first person; the narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention of all the author's works.

The Figure in the Carpet Annotated

Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet Annotated written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Figure in the Carpet" is a short story by American writer Henry James first published in 1896. It is told in the first person; the narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention of all the author's works.

The Figure in the Carpet (Esprios Classics)

Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781006801693
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet (Esprios Classics) written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Figure in the Carpet" is a short story (sometimes considered a novella) by American writer Henry James first published in 1896. It is told in the first person; the narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention of all the author's works. "The Figure in the Carpet" has evaded definitive interpretation. In his book Henry James (1913), Ford Madox Ford wrote that after it was published, James's contemporaries set themselves on a quest for the Figure as an identifiable physical entity. In the preface to his A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941), T. S. Eliot wrote, "Nowadays, we all look for the Figure in the Carpet." It is possible that James's Figure is a palpable object that, like a talisman, facilitates interpretation of his own work.

T. S. Eliot: The Poems

Author : Martin Scofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521317610
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book T. S. Eliot: The Poems written by Martin Scofield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The poems, . . . some of the poetic drama (particularly Sweeney Agonistes), and relevant sections of prose criticism, are discussed in detail and placed in relation to the development of Eliot's oeuvre, and more briefly to his life and a wider context of philosophical and religious enquiry" --Introduction.

The Figure in the Carpet

Author : Генри Джеймс
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041239347
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Генри Джеймс and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Figure in the Carpet

Author : Henry Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521952320
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James "The Figure in the Carpet" is a story published in 1896 in London, by American writer Henry James. The story is usually referred to as a novella and is told in the first person. The narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention within all the author's works. Heretofore, "The Figure in the Carpet" has evaded definitive interpretation. In his book Henry James (1913), Ford Madox Ford wrote that after the nouvelle was published, James' contemporaries had set themselves on a quest to locate the Figure as an identifiable physical entity. In the preface to his Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941), T.S. Eliot wrote, "Nowadays, we all look for the Figure in the Carpet." Absent a definitive interpretation, it opened new possibilities for the study of ambiguity in literature.

The Figure in the Carpet

Author : Henry James
Publisher : 谷月社
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry James and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHAPTER I I had done a few things and earned a few pence—I had perhaps even had time to begin to think I was finer than was perceived by the patronising; but when I take the little measure of my course (a fidgety habit, for it’s none of the longest yet) I count my real start from the evening George Corvick, breathless and worried, came in to ask me a service. He had done more things than I, and earned more pence, though there were chances for cleverness I thought he sometimes missed. I could only however that evening declare to him that he never missed one for kindness. There was almost rapture in hearing it proposed to me to prepare for The Middle, the organ of our lucubrations, so called from the position in the week of its day of appearance, an article for which he had made himself responsible and of which, tied up with a stout string, he laid on my table the subject. I pounced upon my opportunity—that is on the first volume of it—and paid scant attention to my friend’s explanation of his appeal. What explanation could be more to the point than my obvious fitness for the task? I had written on Hugh Vereker, but never a word in The Middle, where my dealings were mainly with the ladies and the minor poets. This was his new novel, an advance copy, and whatever much or little it should do for his reputation I was clear on the spot as to what it should do for mine. Moreover if I always read him as soon as I could get hold of him I had a particular reason for wishing to read him now: I had accepted an invitation to Bridges for the following Sunday, and it had been mentioned in Lady Jane’s note that Mr. Vereker was to be there. I was young enough for a flutter at meeting a man of his renown, and innocent enough to believe the occasion would demand the display of an acquaintance with his “last.”

Henry James - The Figure in the Carpet

Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Henry James - The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short story by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality.Includes a biography of the author.

The Figure in the Carpet Illustrated

Author : Henry James James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet Illustrated written by Henry James James and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short story by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality.

The Figure in the Carpet

Author : Henry Henry James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781515153344
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book The Figure in the Carpet written by Henry Henry James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator, a writer for a literary newspaper, prides himself on his astute review of Hugh Vereker's latest novel. Vereker inadvertently dismisses his efforts, and then to repair his incivility, confides in the narrator that all critics have "missed my little point," "the particular thing I've written my books most for," "the thing for the critic to find," "my secret," "like a complex figure in a Persian carpet." The narrator racks his brains and, in desperation, tells his friend Corvick of the puzzle. Corvick and his novelist fiancée, Gwendolen, pursue "the trick" without success until Corvick, traveling alone in India, wires Gwendolen and the narrator "Eureka! Immense." He refuses, however, to divulge the secret to Gwendolen until after they are married, and then dies in an accident. Since Gwendolen refuses to share her knowledge, the narrator speculates, "the figure in the carpet [was] traceable or describable only for husbands and wives-for lovers supremely united." She remarries, and after her death, the narrator approaches her new husband to discover the secret. But the widowed husband is surprised and humiliated by the news of his late wife's great "secret," and he and the narrator conclude by sharing the same curiosity.