Writing the Self: Henry James and America
Autor Peter Collisteren Limba Engleză Hardback – apr 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781851968718
ISBN-10: 1851968717
Pagini: 268
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1851968717
Pagini: 268
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Chapter 1 Letting Yourself Go : James Arrives in Twentieth-Century America; Chapter 2 Surrendering to the Messages of New York; Chapter 3 Boston and Cambridge: Initiations from the Past; Chapter 4 Asking 'as Few Questions as Possible' in Arcadian New England; Chapter 5 Hearing the Voices of the South; Chapter 6 'Unwritten History': The Romance of James's Civil War Stories; Chapter 7 'Doing Something' for the Soldiers of the Civil War; Chapter 8 Life-Writing for the Man of Letters; Chapter 9 'An Influence Beyond My Notation': The Self-Reflexive Figures of 'the Jolly Corner'; Chapter 10 Opening Doors Into the Sense of the Past; Chapter 11 'A Round of Visits': Effects Achieved 'Without the Aid of the Ladies'; Chapter 12 Waking up to 'Some Pretty Big Things' in the Ivory Tower;
Descriere
A monograph that re-evaluates the final decade of Henry James' creative life. It examines the narrative of "The American Scene", the autobiographical writing, a number of short stories and two incomplete novels: works which offer contrasting notations of the self.