Author: Carren Kasto
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781978816350
Category : NON-CLASSIFIABLE.
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagination and Desire in the Novels of Henry James
Author: Carren Kasto
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781978816350
Category : NON-CLASSIFIABLE.
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781978816350
Category : NON-CLASSIFIABLE.
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagination and Desire in the Novels of Henry James
Author: Carren Kaston
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Desire and Love in Henry James
Author: David Bruce McWhirter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521353289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
With painful consistency, Henry James denied his characters the experience of fulfilled love. Yet in the final pages of The Golden Bowl, James affirms and celebrates the renewal of Maggie Verver's marriage and the consummation of her passion. McWhirter argues that James' last three novels in fact embody a radical refashioning of his vision.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521353289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
With painful consistency, Henry James denied his characters the experience of fulfilled love. Yet in the final pages of The Golden Bowl, James affirms and celebrates the renewal of Maggie Verver's marriage and the consummation of her passion. McWhirter argues that James' last three novels in fact embody a radical refashioning of his vision.
Imagination and Desire in the Novels of Henry James
Author: Carren Kaston
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure
Author: Tessa Hadley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139432915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes. These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139432915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes. These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society.
Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination
Author: Philip M. Weinstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674593510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674593510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Desire and Love in Henry James
Author: David McWhirter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521127172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
With painful consistency, Henry James denied his characters the experience of fulfilled love. Not surprisingly, many critics have concluded that he simply could not accept the idea of people loving. Yet in the final pages of The Golden Bowl, James affirms and celebrates the renewal of Maggie Verver's marriage and the consummation of her passion. How did he arrive at this belated embrace of love? David McWhirter argues that James' last three novels - usually seen as a homogenous phase in his career - in fact embody a radical refashioning of his vision. The Ambassadors culminates James' lifelong commitment to desire, a solipsistic 'imagination of loving' that deliberately flees fulfilment. But through his acceptance of life's tragic finitude in The Wings of the Dove, James attains a new capacity - realised in The Golden Bowl - to will the death of desire's infinite but illusory imaginings in the limited reality of enacted love. Combining formalist, ethical and psychobiographical perspectives, McWhirter provides an important rereading of James' late novels, challenging prevailing views of the 'major phase' as life-denying retreat into a refined but sterile art.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521127172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
With painful consistency, Henry James denied his characters the experience of fulfilled love. Not surprisingly, many critics have concluded that he simply could not accept the idea of people loving. Yet in the final pages of The Golden Bowl, James affirms and celebrates the renewal of Maggie Verver's marriage and the consummation of her passion. How did he arrive at this belated embrace of love? David McWhirter argues that James' last three novels - usually seen as a homogenous phase in his career - in fact embody a radical refashioning of his vision. The Ambassadors culminates James' lifelong commitment to desire, a solipsistic 'imagination of loving' that deliberately flees fulfilment. But through his acceptance of life's tragic finitude in The Wings of the Dove, James attains a new capacity - realised in The Golden Bowl - to will the death of desire's infinite but illusory imaginings in the limited reality of enacted love. Combining formalist, ethical and psychobiographical perspectives, McWhirter provides an important rereading of James' late novels, challenging prevailing views of the 'major phase' as life-denying retreat into a refined but sterile art.
The Redemptive Imagination in the Novels of Henry James
The Critical Reception of Henry James
Author: Linda Simon
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571133199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571133199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Other Henry James
Author: John Carlos Rowe
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822321477
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Rowe uses recent work on the oppressive treatment of gays, women and children in his analysis of Henry James, arguing that James mounts a critique of bourgeois values and lack of historical consciousness.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822321477
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Rowe uses recent work on the oppressive treatment of gays, women and children in his analysis of Henry James, arguing that James mounts a critique of bourgeois values and lack of historical consciousness.