Author: Leon Edel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Biography of Henry James, an American-British author.
Henry James: The master, 1901-1916
Author: Leon Edel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Biography of Henry James, an American-British author.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Biography of Henry James, an American-British author.
Henry James
A Historical Guide to Henry James
Author: John Carlos Rowe
Publisher:
ISBN: 019512135X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
An excellent primer to the work and milieu of Henry James, this collection of essays highlights the historical and cultural issues that influenced the great novelist.
Publisher:
ISBN: 019512135X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
An excellent primer to the work and milieu of Henry James, this collection of essays highlights the historical and cultural issues that influenced the great novelist.
Portraits from Life
Author: Jerome Boyd Maunsell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019878936X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
What happens when novelists write about their own lives directly, in memoirs and autobiographies, rather than in novels? How do they present themselves, and what do their self-portraits reveal? In a series of biographical case studies, Portraits from Life examines how seven canonical Modernist writers - Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells, and Edith Wharton - depicted themselves in their memoirs and autobiographies during the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a range of life-writing sources in this innovative group portrait, Jerome Boyd Maunsell reconstructs the periods during which these authors worked on their memoirs, often towards the end of their lives, and shows how memoirs and autobiographies are just as artful as novels. The seven portraits in the book also create a rich network of encounters, as many of these writers knew each other, and wrote about each other in their reminiscences. Portraits from Life investigates the difficulties and possibilities of autobiography - the relation of fact and fiction, biography and autobiography; the ethical issues of dealing with real people; the thin generic lines between novels and autobiographies; and the deceptive workings of memory - and how all these writers dealt with these concerns as they looked back on their lives. An act of portraiture and biography as well as an act of criticism, moving from London to Paris and through two world wars, it also pieces together a fresh and constantly inter-connecting narrative of the Modernist era in England and France.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019878936X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
What happens when novelists write about their own lives directly, in memoirs and autobiographies, rather than in novels? How do they present themselves, and what do their self-portraits reveal? In a series of biographical case studies, Portraits from Life examines how seven canonical Modernist writers - Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells, and Edith Wharton - depicted themselves in their memoirs and autobiographies during the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a range of life-writing sources in this innovative group portrait, Jerome Boyd Maunsell reconstructs the periods during which these authors worked on their memoirs, often towards the end of their lives, and shows how memoirs and autobiographies are just as artful as novels. The seven portraits in the book also create a rich network of encounters, as many of these writers knew each other, and wrote about each other in their reminiscences. Portraits from Life investigates the difficulties and possibilities of autobiography - the relation of fact and fiction, biography and autobiography; the ethical issues of dealing with real people; the thin generic lines between novels and autobiographies; and the deceptive workings of memory - and how all these writers dealt with these concerns as they looked back on their lives. An act of portraiture and biography as well as an act of criticism, moving from London to Paris and through two world wars, it also pieces together a fresh and constantly inter-connecting narrative of the Modernist era in England and France.
Henry James
Author: Norman Page
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349174661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349174661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Henry James' Last Romance
Author: Beverly Haviland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521563383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A 1998 study of Henry James's classic work of cultural criticism, The American Scene.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521563383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A 1998 study of Henry James's classic work of cultural criticism, The American Scene.
Critical Companion to Henry James
Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438117272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438117272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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.
Henry James's Style of Retrospect
Author: Oliver Herford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191082058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned from the observation of contemporary manners to biographical commemoration and autobiographical reminiscence, and the balance of his output gradually shifted from fiction to non-fiction. The 'late personal writings' of the book's subtitle are works of retrospective non-fiction. They are a varied group, representing a broad array of genres and occasions: commemorative essays and obituary tributes, textual revisions and accounts of revisiting familiar places, cultural and literary criticism, biography and autobiography, and family memoir. Oliver Herford proposes that we read the late personal writings as a coherent sequence, bound together by a close texture of cross-references and allusive echoes, and united by James's newly discovered sense for the literary possibilities of non-fiction. Closely analyzing the style of these writings, this study offers a boldly revisionist account of the way style itself challenges and preoccupies the very late James. A linked series of innovative close readings takes the major works of this period in sequence, addressing a key point of style in each: particular attention is paid to procedures of reference (to the historical past, to real persons and places and objects), a dimension of style often neglected and sometimes actively slighted in analyses of James's late work. Henry James's Style of Retrospect asks what it means for so distinguished a novelist to alter the foundations of his written manner so strikingly in late life, and shows how we may begin to reconfigure our understanding of late Jamesian aesthetics accordingly.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191082058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned from the observation of contemporary manners to biographical commemoration and autobiographical reminiscence, and the balance of his output gradually shifted from fiction to non-fiction. The 'late personal writings' of the book's subtitle are works of retrospective non-fiction. They are a varied group, representing a broad array of genres and occasions: commemorative essays and obituary tributes, textual revisions and accounts of revisiting familiar places, cultural and literary criticism, biography and autobiography, and family memoir. Oliver Herford proposes that we read the late personal writings as a coherent sequence, bound together by a close texture of cross-references and allusive echoes, and united by James's newly discovered sense for the literary possibilities of non-fiction. Closely analyzing the style of these writings, this study offers a boldly revisionist account of the way style itself challenges and preoccupies the very late James. A linked series of innovative close readings takes the major works of this period in sequence, addressing a key point of style in each: particular attention is paid to procedures of reference (to the historical past, to real persons and places and objects), a dimension of style often neglected and sometimes actively slighted in analyses of James's late work. Henry James's Style of Retrospect asks what it means for so distinguished a novelist to alter the foundations of his written manner so strikingly in late life, and shows how we may begin to reconfigure our understanding of late Jamesian aesthetics accordingly.
The Critical Reception of Henry James
Author: Linda Simon
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571133199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571133199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Henry James on Culture
Author: Henry James
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803276192
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This text presents a collection of 18 articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. They focus on questions of gender and manners, religion and metaphysics, as well as grouping together all of his works on World War I.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803276192
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This text presents a collection of 18 articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. They focus on questions of gender and manners, religion and metaphysics, as well as grouping together all of his works on World War I.