The Prefaces Of Henry James
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The Art of the Novel
Author | : Henry James |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2011-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226392059 |
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This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James’s fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great problems of fiction writing—character, plot, point of view, inspiration—and explains how he came to write novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and The American. As Blackmur puts it, “criticism has never been more ambitious, nor more useful.” The latest edition of this influential work includes a foreword by bestselling author Colm Tóibín, whose critically acclaimed novel The Master is told from the point of view of Henry James. As a guide not only to James’s inspiration and execution, but also to his frustrations and triumphs, this volume will be valuable both to students of James’s fiction and to aspiring writers.
What Maisie Knew
Author | : Henry James |
Publsiher | : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-08-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : PKEY:SMP2300000057935 |
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What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divorced, irresponsible parents. The book follows the title character from earliest childhood to precocious maturity.
The Prefaces of Henry James
Author | : John H. Pearson |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780271038674 |
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The Prefaces of Henry James
Author | : Leon Edel |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : OCLC:367188734 |
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The Prefaces
Author | : Henry James |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 2024-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009488341 |
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This is the first scholarly edition of an important group of critical writings by Henry James, the Prefaces to his New York Edition (1907–9). It will be of value to James scholars and to scholars and advanced students of 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and book history.
The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James
Author | : John Carlos Rowe |
Publsiher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2009-08-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780299099732 |
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Rowe examines James from the perspectives of the psychology of literary influence, feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, literary phenomenology and impressionism, and reader-response criticism, transforming a literary monument into the telling point of intersection for modern critical theories.
Meaning in Henry James
Author | : Millicent Bell |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 067455762X |
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Henry James rebelled intuitively against the tyranny and banality of plots. Believing a life to have many potential paths and a self to hold many destinies, he hung the evocative shadow of "what might have been" over much of what he wrote. Yet James also realized that no life can be lived--and no story written--except by submission to some outcome. The limiting conventions of society and literature are, he found, almost inescapable. In a major, comprehensive new study of James's work, Millicent Bell explores this oscillation between hope and fatalism, indeterminacy and form, and uncertainty and meaning. In the process Bell provides fresh insight into how we read and interpret fiction. Bell demonstrates how James's texts steadfastly, almost perversely at times, preserve a sense of alternative possibilities. James involves his characters in overlapping scenarios drawn from folklore, drama, literature, or naturalist formula. The reader engages, with the hero or heroine, in imagining many plots other than the one that finally-and often ambiguously--emerges. The story arouses expectations, proposes courses, then cancels them successively. In complicity with author and character, the reader crafts the story in an adventure of constant revision and anticipation. Literary meaning becomes an experience as well as a goal. In the end, revelations and resolutions, even if unclear or partial, assume an altered significance in light of the earlier imaginings. Not surprisingly, James's deepest sympathies lay with those characters who resisted entrapment by cultural expectations--his idealistic free spirits like Isabel, his marriage renouncers like Fleda Vetch, his largely silent and detached witnesses to life like Strether and the generous Maisie. They are frequently the victims of callous manipulators who box them into oppressive roles or who literally "plot against" them. By looking closely at James's critiques of clever" categorical mind and at his loving and complex portraits of characters of unfulfilled potentiality, Bell celebrates the paradoxes of James's story-denying fiction. In extended analyses of Daisy Miller," Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady; The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, "The Aspern Papers," The Spoils of Poynton, "The Turn of the Screw," What Maisie Knew, "The Beast in the Jungle," "The Jolly Corner," The Wings of the Dove, and The Ambassadors, Bell relates James's work to influential movements of the day, notably impressionism and naturalism. She examines the influence of Hawthorne, Emerson, Flaubert, Balzac, and Zola on James at various periods throughout his career. Drawing on rich traditions of criticism and on stimulating recent theories, Bell forges a critical approach both accessible and profound for this elegant reading of one of the greatest writers of this or any time. It is a book that will be of high value and interest to the advanced scholar--marking out new ground in its methodology and offering innovative interpretations of James's fiction. At the same time, it will appeal equally to the general, reader, who will find his reading of James enriched by Bell's lucid and impassioned discussion.
Studies in Henry James
Author | : Richard P. Blackmur |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081120863X |
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"A bibliographical note: Blackmur's essays on Henry James": p. 243-244. Includes index.