Henry James And The Father Question

Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139432542

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Henry James and the Father Question by Andrew Taylor Pdf

The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father, who was a philosopher and theologian, proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor explores how James's writing responds to James Senior's epistemological, thematic and narrative concerns, and relocates these concerns in a more secularised and cosmopolitan cultural milieu. Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. He argues for a reading of Henry James that is informed by an awareness of paternal inheritance. Taylor's study reveals the complex and at times antagonistic dialogue between the elder James and his peers, particularly Emerson and Whitman, in the vanguard of mid nineteenth-century American Romanticism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels and texts, he demonstrates how this dialogue anticipates James's own theories of fiction and selfhood.

Author : Anna De Biasio,Anna Despotopoulou,Chryssoula Lascaratou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443867887

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Transforming Henry James by Anna De Biasio,Anna Despotopoulou,Chryssoula Lascaratou Pdf

Employing a wide range of interpretive and theoretical approaches, this collection brings together distinguished James scholars from four continents to elicit new and exciting readings of a diverse array of James’s fiction and non-fiction. Through their transformative acts, the essays investigate James’s life-long engagement with cities, places, and tourist sites; offer theoretically informed readings of his work’s textual richness; and explore his intricate involvement with social and cultural issues, such as gender and sexuality, economics, friendship and hospitality, and visual culture. Arranged under rubrics which signal the complex interrelations of Henry James as a historical individual and of the works he authored with a web of social, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical discourses, the contributions collected in this book make a convincing case for the ongoing productivity of James’s oeuvre when interrogated from new critical angles and, therefore, for its enduring centrality to the concerns of literary and cultural studies.

Author : Annick Duperray,Adrian Harding,Dennis Tredy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781443866439

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Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity by Annick Duperray,Adrian Harding,Dennis Tredy Pdf

Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity aims to advance the field of studies on the life and work of Henry James by fully exploring the author’s use of duplicity, one of the key literary and rhetorical strategies within the author’s vast and infamous arsenal of techniques of ‘ambiguity’. The collection brings together essays by both long established and more recent Jamesian scholars from eleven different countries, the collective work of whom, through this publication, further enhances our grasp of the ever-elusive literary style of Henry James. The prefatory section of this volume provides a general overview of the myriad uses of ‘duplicity’ in the writings of Henry James. The collected essays are then divided into five sections, each providing an in-depth study of a particular use of duplicity as a rhetorical strategy. The first three sections focus on duplicitous devices employed within James’s works of fiction – including the author’s often underhanded use of undisclosed literary sources (‘Duplicitous Subtexts’), his staging of characters who rely on subterfuge and outright lying (‘Duplicitous Characters’), and his creation of doubles and doppelgängers – another key connotation of the term ‘duplicity’ – both within a single work and throughout his literary career (‘Duplicitous Representation’). The two final sections then focus the poetics of duplicity employed in works of non-fiction by James, including his autobiographies and his reviews of other authors, as well as in his personal writings and correspondence. This includes James’s guileful use of duplicity in his representation of himself, particular attention being paid to James’s late works of self-assessment (‘Duplicitous Self-Representation’), as well as in his assessments of other writers in his reviews or of certain places in his travel writing (‘Duplicitous Judgements’). Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity would thus be a great asset to scholars of James at all levels, from the student grappling with James’s literary sleight of hand for the first time, to specialists in the field of James who have long studied the masterful art of James’s literary trickery.

Author : Tomoko Eguchi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443894111

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Ethical Aestheticism in the Early Works of Henry James by Tomoko Eguchi Pdf

This study re-locates the work of Henry James by revealing parallels between the aestheticism of John Ruskin and that of James. It explores a mix of well-known fictional texts alongside James’s essays and tales, which are less frequently analysed, but which, nevertheless, offer important insights into James’s attitude to his artistic method. Tracing James’s early development in comparison with Ruskin’s, this book also explores German Romantic thought and the idealism of Kant, Goethe and Hegel. While examining the German connections with James, this study is also alert to James’s relations with Walter Pater and French realism, to which James became increasingly close in the mid-1880s. Rather than placing James within one single category, it demonstrates how James interfused Romanticism and realism in establishing his own form of aestheticism. Shedding light on James’s period of apprenticeship, this book therefore articulates the Victorian concept of ‘aestheticism’ as used by James and Ruskin.

Author : Oliver Herford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198734802

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Henry James's Style of Retrospect by Oliver Herford Pdf

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.

Author : Linda Simon
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571133194

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The Critical Reception of Henry James by Linda Simon Pdf

Author : A. Despotopoulou,K. Reed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119840

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Henry James and the Supernatural by A. Despotopoulou,K. Reed Pdf

This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose.

Author : Melanie H. Ross,Greg W. Zacharias
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527561908

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Tracing Henry James by Melanie H. Ross,Greg W. Zacharias Pdf

Range and diversity are aims of Tracing Henry James, which brings together 28 essays by established and newer Henry James scholars from eight countries in North America, Europe and Asia. The essays are organized into an introductory section, a group of essays on Henry James’s shorter fiction, one on James’s longer fiction, one on The American Scene and James’s travel essays, one on James and criticism, and one on Henry James’s letters.

Author : David McWhirter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521514613

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Henry James in Context by David McWhirter Pdf

The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.

Author : K. Boudreau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230106864

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Henry James' Narrative Technique by K. Boudreau Pdf

Henry James Narrative Technique situates Henry James famous method within an emerging modernist tradition with roots in philosophical debates between rationalism and empiricism. This cogent study considers James works in the context of nineteenth-century thought on consciousness, perception, and cognition. Kristin Boudreau makes the compelling argument that these philosophical discussions influenced James depictions of consciousness and are integral to his narrative technique.

Author : P. Rawlings
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230288881

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Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies by P. Rawlings Pdf

This book explores landmark criticism on a writer who continues to command critical attention. In addition to mapping out the existing critical terrain, these essays offer a sense of future trajectories in James studies. Essays consider James' own criticism and theories of narrative and architecture, James' letters, money and globalization.

Author : Michele Mendelssohn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748697540

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Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture by Michele Mendelssohn Pdf

This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.

Author : A. Kventsel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230206373

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Decadence in the Late Novels of Henry James by A. Kventsel Pdf

Looking at the novels of James's major phase in the context of fin-de-siècle decadence, this book illuminates central issues in the James corpus and central aspects of a rich and fraught cultural moment. Through a close examination of the textures of the novels, Kventsel defines and explores their psycho-cultural field of meaning.

Author : Eric Haralson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139436113

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Henry James and Queer Modernity by Eric Haralson Pdf

In Henry James and Queer Modernity, first published in 2003, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. Haralson places emphasis on American masculinity as portrayed in fiction between 1875 and 1935, but the book also treats events in England, such as the Oscar Wilde trials, that had a major effect on American literature. He traces James's engagement with sexual politics from his first novels of the 1870s to his 'major phase' at the turn of the century. The second section of this study measures James's extraordinary impact on Cather's representation of 'queer' characters, Stein's theories of writing and authorship as a mode of resistance to modern sexual regulation, and Hemingway's very self-constitution as a manly American author.

Author : Michael D. Snediker
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452965291

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Contingent Figure by Michael D. Snediker Pdf

A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic pain At the intersection of queer theory and disability studies, acclaimed theorist Michael D. Snediker locates something unexpected: chronic pain. Starting from this paradigm-shifting insight, Snediker elaborates a bracing examination of the phenomenological peculiarity of disability, articulating a complex idiom of figuration as the lived substance of pain’s quotidian. This lexicon helps us differently inhabit both the theoretical and phenomenal dimensions of chronic pain and suffering by illuminating where these modes are least distinguishable. Suffused with fastidious close readings, and girded by a remarkably complex understanding of phenomenal experience, Contingent Figure resides in the overlap between literary theory and lyric experiment. Snediker grounds his exploration of disability and chronic pain in dazzling close readings of Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and many others. Its juxtaposition of these readings with candid autobiographical accounts makes Contingent Figure an exemplary instance of literary theory as a practice of lyric attention. Thoroughly rigorous and anything but predictable, this stirring inquiry leaves the reader with a rich critical vocabulary indebted to the likes of Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, D. O. Winnicott, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. A master class in close reading’s inseparability from the urgency of lived experience, this book is essential for students and scholars of disability studies, queer theory, formalism, aesthetics, and the radical challenge of Emersonian poetics across the long American nineteenth century.