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Book Synopsis The Art of the Novel by : Henry James
Download or read book The Art of the Novel written by Henry James and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James’s fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great problems of fiction writing—character, plot, point of view, inspiration—and explains how he came to write novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and The American. As Blackmur puts it, “criticism has never been more ambitious, nor more useful.” The latest edition of this influential work includes a foreword by bestselling author Colm Tóibín, whose critically acclaimed novel The Master is told from the point of view of Henry James. As a guide not only to James’s inspiration and execution, but also to his frustrations and triumphs, this volume will be valuable both to students of James’s fiction and to aspiring writers.
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 Meaning in Henry James by : Millicent Bell
Download or read book Meaning in Henry James written by Millicent Bell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James rebelled intuitively against the tyranny and banality of plots. Believing a life to have many potential paths and a self to hold many destinies, he hung the evocative shadow of "what might have been" over much of what he wrote. Yet James also realized that no life can be lived--and no story written--except by submission to some outcome. The limiting conventions of society and literature are, he found, almost inescapable. In a major, comprehensive new study of James's work, Millicent Bell explores this oscillation between hope and fatalism, indeterminacy and form, and uncertainty and meaning. In the process Bell provides fresh insight into how we read and interpret fiction. Bell demonstrates how James's texts steadfastly, almost perversely at times, preserve a sense of alternative possibilities. James involves his characters in overlapping scenarios drawn from folklore, drama, literature, or naturalist formula. The reader engages, with the hero or heroine, in imagining many plots other than the one that finally-and often ambiguously--emerges. The story arouses expectations, proposes courses, then cancels them successively. In complicity with author and character, the reader crafts the story in an adventure of constant revision and anticipation. Literary meaning becomes an experience as well as a goal. In the end, revelations and resolutions, even if unclear or partial, assume an altered significance in light of the earlier imaginings. Not surprisingly, James's deepest sympathies lay with those characters who resisted entrapment by cultural expectations--his idealistic free spirits like Isabel, his marriage renouncers like Fleda Vetch, his largely silent and detached witnesses to life like Strether and the generous Maisie. They are frequently the victims of callous manipulators who box them into oppressive roles or who literally "plot against" them. By looking closely at James's critiques of clever" categorical mind and at his loving and complex portraits of characters of unfulfilled potentiality, Bell celebrates the paradoxes of James's story-denying fiction. In extended analyses of Daisy Miller," Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady; The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, "The Aspern Papers," The Spoils of Poynton, "The Turn of the Screw," What Maisie Knew, "The Beast in the Jungle," "The Jolly Corner," The Wings of the Dove, and The Ambassadors, Bell relates James's work to influential movements of the day, notably impressionism and naturalism. She examines the influence of Hawthorne, Emerson, Flaubert, Balzac, and Zola on James at various periods throughout his career. Drawing on rich traditions of criticism and on stimulating recent theories, Bell forges a critical approach both accessible and profound for this elegant reading of one of the greatest writers of this or any time. It is a book that will be of high value and interest to the advanced scholar--marking out new ground in its methodology and offering innovative interpretations of James's fiction. At the same time, it will appeal equally to the general, reader, who will find his reading of James enriched by Bell's lucid and impassioned discussion.
Book Synopsis The Prefaces of Henry James by : Leon Edel
Download or read book The Prefaces of Henry James written by Leon Edel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 136 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 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bibliographical note: Blackmur's essays on Henry James": p. 243-244. Includes index.
Book Synopsis Thinking in Henry James by : Sharon Cameron
Download or read book Thinking in Henry James written by Sharon Cameron and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-08-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking in Henry James identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousness—first, the idea that it may not always be situated within this or that person but rather exists outside or "between," in some transpersonal place; and second, the idea that consciousness may have power over things and people outside the person who thinks. Examining these and other counterintuitive representations of consciousness, Cameron asks, "How do we make sense of these conceptions of thinking?"
Book Synopsis The Art of Criticism by : Henry James
Download or read book The Art of Criticism written by Henry James and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-06-15 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of "the most important" of Henry James' Prefaces; "his studies of Hawthorne, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, de Maupassant, Turgenev, Sainte-Beuve, and Arnold; and his essays on the function of criticism and the future of the novel."--P. [4] of cover.
Book Synopsis Henry James Goes to Paris by : Peter Brooks
Download or read book Henry James Goes to Paris written by Peter Brooks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James's reputation as The Master is so familiar that it's hard to imagine he was ever someone on whom some things really were lost. This is the story of the year--1875 to 1876--when the young novelist moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols living at the center of the early modern movement in art. As Peter Brooks skillfully recounts, James largely failed to appreciate or even understand the new artistic developments teeming around him during his Paris sojourn. But living in England twenty years later, he would recall the aesthetic lessons of Paris, and his memories of the radical perspectives opened up by French novelists and painters would help transform James into the writer of his adventurous later fiction. A narrative that combines biography and criticism and uses James's writings to tell the story from his point of view, Henry James Goes to Paris vividly brings to life the young American artist's Paris year--and its momentous artistic and personal consequences. James's Paris story is one of enchantment and disenchantment. He initially loved Paris, he succeeded in meeting all the writers he admired (Turgenev, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, Goncourt, and Daudet), and he witnessed the latest development in French painting, Impressionism. But James largely found the writers disappointing, and he completely misunderstood the paintings he saw. He also seems to have fallen in and out of love in a more ordinary sense--with a young Russian aesthete, Paul Zhukovsky. Disillusioned, James soon retreated to England--for good. But James would eventually be changed forever by his memories of Paris.
Book Synopsis Theory of Fiction: Henry James by : Henry James
Download or read book Theory of Fiction: Henry James written by Henry James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of more than 250 selections from Henry James's stories about writers, his critical and speculative essays, his Notebooks, Prefaces, and letters, this collection brings together for the first time, in a single, systematic volume, all the important passages in James's work which have implications for or ideas about his theory of fiction. The result is the most comprehensive, exhaustive, and innovative volume of fictional theory ever published; in many ways it is the consummation of James's contribution to letters. In a masterful introductory essay, James E. Miller Jr., presents James's theory of fiction in outline; he also contributes brief introductions to each of the seventeen chapters, summarizing the major points. Abundant guides direct the reader to subjects and sources.
Book Synopsis The Prefaces of Henry James by : John H. Pearson
Download or read book The Prefaces of Henry James written by John H. Pearson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Book of Prefaces by : Henry Louis Mencken
Download or read book A Book of Prefaces written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1917 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Aspern Papers written by Henry James and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2016 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James, The Aspern Papers
Book Synopsis Monopolizing the Master by : Michael Anesko
Download or read book Monopolizing the Master written by Michael Anesko and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary disciples to control his posthumous reputation, a struggle that was continued by later generations of critics and biographers. Monopolizing the Master gives a blow-by-blow account of this conflict, which aroused intense feelings of jealousy, suspicion, and proprietorship among those who claimed to be the just custodians of James's literary legacy. With an unprecedented amount of new evidence now available, Michael Anesko reveals the remarkable social, political, and sexual intrigue that inspired—and influenced—the deliberate construction of the Legend of the Master.
Download or read book The Prefaces written by Henry James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly edition of an important group of critical writings by Henry James, the Prefaces to his New York Edition (1907–9). It will be of value to James scholars and to scholars and advanced students of 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and book history.
Book Synopsis The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James by : John Carlos Rowe
Download or read book The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James written by John Carlos Rowe and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowe examines James from the perspectives of the psychology of literary influence, feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, literary phenomenology and impressionism, and reader-response criticism, transforming a literary monument into the telling point of intersection for modern critical theories.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Henry James by : Jonathan Freedman
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Henry James written by Jonathan Freedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work.
Book Synopsis The Notebooks of Henry James by : Henry James
Download or read book The Notebooks of Henry James written by Henry James and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1981-09-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For other novelists the value of Henry James's Notebooks is immense and to brood over them a major experience. The glow of the great impresario is on the pages. They are occasionally readable and endlessly stimulating, often moving and are ocasionally relieved by a drop of gossip."—V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman "The Notebooks take us into his study, and here we can observe him, at last, in the very act of creation at his writing table."—Leon Edel, Atlantic Monthly "A document of prime importance."—Edmund Wilson, New Yorker
