The Sacred Fount

The Sacred Fount

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780344272547

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The Secret of Lost Things

The Secret of Lost Things

Author: Sheridan Hay

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2010-08-19

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 000738808X

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A stunning debut from a Australian writer – the story of a treasure hunt through a vast New York bookshop.


The Sacred Fount by Henry James - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

The Sacred Fount by Henry James - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2017-07-17

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1786569744

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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Sacred Fount’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Henry James’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of James includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Sacred Fount’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to James’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles


Studies in Henry James

Studies in Henry James

Author: Richard P. Blackmur

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780811208635

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


The Challenge of Bewilderment

The Challenge of Bewilderment

Author: Paul B. Armstrong

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1501722727

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The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between knowing and narration. Paul B. Armstrong here addresses the pivotal thematic experience of "bewilderment," an experience that challenges the reader’s very sense of reality and that shows it to have no more certainty or stability than an interpretative construct. Through readings of The Sacred Fount and The Ambassadors by James, Lord Jim and Nostromo by Conrad, and The Good Soldier and Parade’s End by Ford, Armstrong examines how each writer dramatizes his understanding of the act of knowing. Armstrong demonstrates how the novelists’ attitudes toward the process of knowing inform experiments with representation, through which they thematize the relation between the understanding of a fictional world and everyday habits of perception. Finally, he considers how these experiments with the strategies of narration produce a heightened awareness of the process of interpretation.


Henry James Goes to Paris

Henry James Goes to Paris

Author: Peter Brooks

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-26

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0691190216

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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.


The Romance of Failure

The Romance of Failure

Author: Jonathan Auerbach

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 019505721X

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Auerbach's book explores the fictions of three 19th-century writers--Poe, Hawthorne, and James--in which the first-person narrator is both the central actor and the retrospective teller of tale, at once hero and historian. Auerbach argues that first person is an attractive but dangerous form of self-revelation that foregrounds fundamental problems of literay representation such as how fiction come to be made, and the relation between these plots and the people who make them.


The Sacred Fount

The Sacred Fount

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-10-03

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1009072293

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The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. One of James's strangest works, The Sacred Fount, explores ideas of sexual desire and power in an English country house setting. The novel aroused considerable critical bewilderment and hostility on its original publication in 1901 but was retrieved by a subsequent generation of critics who found its ambiguity and stylistic elaboration an instance of James's 'mastery' and an early example of literary modernism. This is the first critical edition of James' landmark text and is supported by a full critical apparatus including introduction, notes, glossary, textual variants and bibliography. The volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars and advanced students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.