Author: Henry James
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ISBN: 9780246636140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Complete Tales of Henry James, Vol. 8, 1891-1892
Author: Henry James
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ISBN: 9780246636140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN: 9780246636140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Complete Tales of Henry James: 1891-1892
Author: Henry James
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Complete Tales of Henry James
Author: Henry James
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Complete Tales of Henry James, Vol. 7, 1888-1891
Author: Henry James
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ISBN: 9780246636133
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN: 9780246636133
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Complete Tales of Henry James, Vol. 9, 1892-1898
Author: Henry James
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ISBN: 9780246636157
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN: 9780246636157
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Henry James as a Biographer
Author: Willie Tolliver
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317734092
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This study of Henry James's biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Wetmore Story offers an argument that he deserves greater recognition for his contributions to the development of biography, based on his implicit theory of biography, found in his critical commentary and on these two complicated and ultimately artistically innovative performances in the genre. Although James maintained an ambivalent relationship to the art of biography, in his reviews, criticism, letters and fiction, he wrote about biography from a core of aesthetic conviction that constitutes an informal poetics. It is necessary thus to scrutinize the ways in which James's theoretical convictions, particularly his insistence on artistic unity, fail him when he writes two biographies himself. Both Hawthorne (1879) and William Wetmore Story and His Friends(1903) fail to cohere in the way traditional biographies achieve unity. Neither work has at its center a dynamic and fully dimensional apprehension of the biographical subject. Instead James violates one of his own essential biographical tenets. He usurps his subject and places himself at the center of what should be a narrative of his subject's life. The results fall short of fully achieved biography, but they do not fall short of literary interest. In order to write these books according to his own genius, James had to reinvent the form. They are rife with innovations, chief among them his great experimentation with narrative point of view, here brought to bear on biography. This concept and others survey the terrain for the important biographical practitioners and theorists who follow him. For this reason, a special place must be found for James in pantheon of experimental biographers.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317734092
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This study of Henry James's biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Wetmore Story offers an argument that he deserves greater recognition for his contributions to the development of biography, based on his implicit theory of biography, found in his critical commentary and on these two complicated and ultimately artistically innovative performances in the genre. Although James maintained an ambivalent relationship to the art of biography, in his reviews, criticism, letters and fiction, he wrote about biography from a core of aesthetic conviction that constitutes an informal poetics. It is necessary thus to scrutinize the ways in which James's theoretical convictions, particularly his insistence on artistic unity, fail him when he writes two biographies himself. Both Hawthorne (1879) and William Wetmore Story and His Friends(1903) fail to cohere in the way traditional biographies achieve unity. Neither work has at its center a dynamic and fully dimensional apprehension of the biographical subject. Instead James violates one of his own essential biographical tenets. He usurps his subject and places himself at the center of what should be a narrative of his subject's life. The results fall short of fully achieved biography, but they do not fall short of literary interest. In order to write these books according to his own genius, James had to reinvent the form. They are rife with innovations, chief among them his great experimentation with narrative point of view, here brought to bear on biography. This concept and others survey the terrain for the important biographical practitioners and theorists who follow him. For this reason, a special place must be found for James in pantheon of experimental biographers.
Taking Stock
Author: Jürgen Kramer
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823376217
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Die in diesem Band zusammengestellten 35 Aufsätze aus 35 Jahren Forschung und Lehre sollen zum einen den Beitrag des Autors zur Begründung und Entwicklung der kulturwissenschaftlichen Dimension in der Anglistik seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre dokumentieren, zum anderen aber auch Stationen seiner intellektuellen Biografie sichtbar machen. Dabei ist sein zentrales Motiv, Rechenschaft über die Arbeit in einem – wie der Autor meint – nach wie vor privilegierten Bereich unserer Gesellschaft abzulegen.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823376217
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Die in diesem Band zusammengestellten 35 Aufsätze aus 35 Jahren Forschung und Lehre sollen zum einen den Beitrag des Autors zur Begründung und Entwicklung der kulturwissenschaftlichen Dimension in der Anglistik seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre dokumentieren, zum anderen aber auch Stationen seiner intellektuellen Biografie sichtbar machen. Dabei ist sein zentrales Motiv, Rechenschaft über die Arbeit in einem – wie der Autor meint – nach wie vor privilegierten Bereich unserer Gesellschaft abzulegen.
Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections
Author: Marietta Chicorel
Publisher:
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Complete Tales of Henry James: 1888-1891
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Prophets Of Protest
Author: Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 159558854X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical impulses of white, male, middle-class reformers, obscuring the contributions of many African Americans, women, and others. Prophets of Protest, the first collection of writings on abolitionism in more than a generation, draws on an immense new body of research in African American studies, literature, art history, film, law, women’s studies, and other disciplines. The book incorporates new thinking on such topics as the role of early black newspapers, antislavery poetry, and abolitionists in film and provides new perspectives on familiar figures such as Sojourner Truth, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown. With contributions from the leading scholars in the field, Prophets of Protest is a long overdue update of one of the central reform movements in America’s history.
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 159558854X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical impulses of white, male, middle-class reformers, obscuring the contributions of many African Americans, women, and others. Prophets of Protest, the first collection of writings on abolitionism in more than a generation, draws on an immense new body of research in African American studies, literature, art history, film, law, women’s studies, and other disciplines. The book incorporates new thinking on such topics as the role of early black newspapers, antislavery poetry, and abolitionists in film and provides new perspectives on familiar figures such as Sojourner Truth, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown. With contributions from the leading scholars in the field, Prophets of Protest is a long overdue update of one of the central reform movements in America’s history.