Studies in Henry James
Studies in Henry James

Author: Richard P. Blackmur

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780811208642

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"A bibliographical note: Blackmur's essays on Henry James": p. 243-244. Includes index.

On Henry James
On Henry James

Author: Louis J. Budd

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780822310648

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From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.

Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels
Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels

Author: Maya Higashi Wakana

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1317082214

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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.

Henry James
Henry James

Author: Jeanne Delbaere-Garant

Publisher: Librairie Droz

Published: 2013-05-22

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9782251661919

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Both James’s life and his literary career might be figured as a double spiral rooted at the one end in the American soil and in romanticism, contracting in its middle on contact with France and French naturalism and expanding again into the Anglo-Saxon world and into the twentieth century. The spiral—which also suggests the artist’s indirect approach to reality—strikes me as an adequate symbol for Henry James. From Bramante’s ramp in the Vatican to F.L. Wright’s in the Guggenheim Museum it has always been the favourite shape of all those who claimed greater freedom for the artist, rejected the fixity of academic rules and were convinced that art, like the spirit of man, is capable of endless progress.

The Turn of the Mind
The Turn of the Mind

Author: Adré Marshall

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780838636954

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James's narrative strategies are discussed in the context of the techniques employed by his literary predecessors. Illuminating comparisons are made with novelists such as Jane Austen and George Eliot, and particular attention is paid to the French novelist Flaubert, who was probably the most significant influence on James. The author examines James's stylistic devices in a selection of representative works from his early, middle, and late periods (Roderick Hudson, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Golden Bowl).

Critical Companion to Henry James
Critical Companion to Henry James

Author: Eric L. Haralson

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1438117272

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Examines the life and writings of Henry James including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.

The Grasping Imagination
The Grasping Imagination

Author: Peter Martinus Buitenhuis

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1970-12-15

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1442651067

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There has been almost no study of the American writings of Henry James, that is, the fiction, essays, and travel literature with an American setting. The great bulk of Jamesian criticism deals with the international novels, particularly his late works. This study places James’s career in a new perspective by discussing its American aspect. It gives the critic an opportunity to come to grips with the evolution of James’s technique from his second short story to his penultimate, unfinished novel, The Ivory Tower.

The Uses of Obscurity
The Uses of Obscurity

Author: Allon White

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-09

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1003821839

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Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th Century and which became so important to modernism. The author argues that the decline of realism entailed the growth of ‘symptomatic’ or ‘subtextual’ reading which tended to treat fiction as compromised autobiography. This kind of reading left the author dangerously isolated and exposed in the midst of a newly sophisticated public. Within this general cultural perspective, the book traces the private anxieties that led George Meredith, Joseph Conrad and Henry James to conceal themselves within their complex and resistant fictions. It discusses opacity in the texts themselves – embarrassment and shame in Meredith; ‘engimas’ in Conrad; and the fear of vulgarity and knowledge in Henry James.