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Author : John Carlos Rowe,Eric Haralson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195121353
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.
Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1375389602
A Study Guide for Henry James's "The American," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : James J. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590694184
Author : MARTHA BANTA
Publisher : Sapienza Università Editrice
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788898533770
Martha Banta’s Henry James: An Alien’s “History” of America is the product of a lifetime of thinking about James and his odd, but oddly productive, relation to the land of his birth. A “biography” of an “autobiography,” it serves as a peripatetic history of the central cross-currents and intersections between Europe and America, memory and history, romance and realism. These diverse elements structure James’s channeling of his own experience as a displaced or “alienated” American into a variety of genres: memoirs and travel writing, novels and tales, letters and literary criticism, social and cultural commentary. Together they constitute the “never completed novel” of his ongoing “autobiographical” project. In its masterful weaving together of materials, text, and time-frames, Henry James: An Alien’s “History” of America moves fluidly back and forth over the intricate tapestry of James’s life and texts. It identifies and analyzes key moments, words, and tropes that echo across the years, tracing the instances of repetition, reversal, self-revelation, and re-vision that underwrite this “life-record.” This study represents a major advance over conventional, sometimes oversimplified readings of James’s “international theme.” His attitudes about both Europe and America emerge here in their full complexity and contradictoriness. The breadth and depth of Banta’s knowledge of James and of the historical America from which he emerged and which he never ceased to engage, however ambivalently, will make this a rich reading experience for general readers as well as scholars. David McWhirter editor of Henry James’s New York Edition: The Construction of Authorship and Henry James in Context.
Author : Douglas Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190451196
With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin's varied body of work that includes short stories, novels, and polemical essays, this collection reflects the major events that left an indelible imprint on the iconic writer: civil rights, black nationalism and the struggle for gay rights in the pre- and post-Stonewall eras. The essays also highlight Baldwin's under-studied role as a trans-Atlantic writer, his lifelong struggle with faith, and his use of music, especially the blues, as a key to unlock the mysteries of his identity as an exile, an artist, and a black American in a racially hostile era.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCSC:32106014774076
In New York Revisited, first published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1906, Henry James describes turn-of-the-century New York in vivid detail. Although written in 1904-1905, when James returned to the U.S. after living abroad for more than 20 years, the essay is as pertinent today as it was 100 years ago. The text appears as it was originally published and is enhanced with period illustrations and photographs. Beautifully bound and with a spectacular view of the Flatiron building on the cover, this book is a literary treasure.
Author : Christina E. Albers
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Short story
ISBN : 0816190992
For each of the stories of Henry James, the author provides an introduction; a discussion of the publication history, the circumstances of composition, the sources and influences, the story's relation to other works of James, critical approaches to the work, and the history of the its interpretation; and a list of works cited. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : David McWhirter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521514613
The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.
Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1375396447
A Study Guide for Henry James's "Wings of the Dove," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116013
Presents critical analyses of five novels by Henry James, each with a plot summary and list of characters, and includes a biography of James, and an index of themes and ideas.
Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781645421979
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady, considered by many to be his best work. As a novel of the late-nineteenth-century, it continues to intrigue readers to this day with the differences between the New and the Old World. Moreover, this book dives into the complexities of compromising versus fighting for one’s personal freedoms. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Henry James’ classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author : Dennis Tredy,Annick Duperray,Adrian Harding
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527535459
To commemorate the recent centennial of Henry James’s death and to help readers understand the depth and scope of the author’s influence both today and during the previous century, thirty leading Jamesian scholars from twelve different countries and five continents were asked to explore ways in which the notions of ‘heritage’ and ‘transmission’ currently come into play when reading James. The resulting chapters of this volume are divided into three main sections, each focusing on different ways in which James’s legacy is being re-evaluated today—from his influence on key authors, playwrights and film-makers over the past century (Part One), to new discoveries regarding European authors and artists who influenced James (Part Two), to recent approaches more radically re-evaluating James for the twenty-first century, including contemporary poetics, political and sociological dimensions, cognitive science, and queer studies (Part Three). This collection will be of great interest to scholars and general readers of James, and is a useful guide to tracing the writer’s ever-elusive ‘figure in the carpet’ and understanding the power of his continued impact today.
Author : Julián Jiménez Heffernan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000912746
The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives, compromising their constitutive freedom. The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition: those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, Gibbon, Thackeray, and Dickens. This subtextual arrogation sets constrains to the unfolding, in James’s narratives, of liberal and romantic freedom—it places limits both to the absolute exemptions of aesthetic interest and to radical Bohemian abandon. But these constrains and limits can be regarded, dialectically, as the enabling conditions of the very liberty they imperil. Drawing on recent research on the spectral dynamics and indirections of literary influence by scholars like Adrian Poole, Philip Horne, Nicola Bradbury, Tamara Follini, and Peter Rawlings, but also on earlier deconstructive work by John Carlos Rowe, Prepossessing Henry James offers a speculative account of the way James is simultaneously resourced and restrained by his sources. Along the way, we discover how Hamlet’s ghost instills in James a fantasy of mental autonomy, or how he adapts Gibbon’s Enlightened narrative to inhibit civic liberty with images of female sacrifice. We see the governess in The Turn of the Screw possessed by the specter of Richardson’s Pamela, exposing social freedoms with liberal brutality. We encounter Gray, in The Ivory Tower, striving to obtain personal freedom by repressing Dickensian "figures, monstruous, fantastic." And, finally, we recognize how much The Ambassadors owes to the ambiguous manner of Thackeray. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443869096
Henry James Today is a collection of seven essays focused on the relevance of Henry James’s work for an understanding of current problems. This volume includes studies of how James and such contemporaries as Mark Twain and the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis have influenced each other and modernist and postmodernist writers, such as Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Franzen, and Philip Roth. These traditional studies of literary influence are complemented by essays on Henry James and visual media (collage, painting, sculpture, architecture) and new media (digital social media and the digital humanities). Recognizing the significant cultural and technological changes since James lived and wrote, the contributors nonetheless focus on the historical and cultural continuities between James’s era and our own. Other contributors focus on innovative practices in James’s cultural era to understand how the modernist avant-garde anticipated social and aesthetic issues that are today central to our lives. The contributors represent a global spectrum of James Studies, and their diverse essays indicate James’s powerful influence on aesthetic and social issues. Brad Evans (Rutgers University), Ashley Barnes (Williams College), Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa), Harold Hellwig (Idaho State University), Geraldo Cáffaro (Universidade Federale de Minais Gerais, Brazil), John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California), and Shawna Ross (Arizona State University) represent an exemplary cross-section of those scholars working on Henry James today.
Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1375392972
A Study Guide for Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.