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.

The Phenomenology of Henry James
The Phenomenology of Henry James

Author: Paul B. Armstrong

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1469622912

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Armstrong suggests that James's perspective is essentially phenomenological--that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists. He examines the connections between phenomenology's theory of consciousness and existentialism's analyses of the lived world in relation to James's fascination with consciousness and what is commonly called his Originally published in 1983. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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.

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.

Henry James
Henry James

Author: Graham Clarke

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9781873403013

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First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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).