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"As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the worlds leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the authors cross-cultural aesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception of Europe -- of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists and thinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics -- which ultimately lead to a profound re-evaluation of his writing"--Publisher's description.
James, Henry, --- Dzheĭms, G. --- Dzheĭms, Genri, --- Jeimsŭ, Henri, --- Джеймс, Генри, --- ג׳יימס, הנרי, --- ג׳ײמס, הנרי, --- Τζειος, Χενρι, --- جميس، هينري، --- جيمز، هنرى --- Knowledge --- Europe. --- Europe --- In literature. --- Biography: literary --- Literary studies: general --- portrait of a lady --- european reception of henry james --- european society of jamesian studies --- the american --- henry james --- americans in europe --- english literature --- novel --- authorship --- the ambassadors --- what maisie knew --- american literature --- France --- Honoré de Balzac --- Paris --- James, Henry
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»Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts through the lens of domestic space, gender, knowledge, and power. This approach serves to investigate the cultural roots of the ›closet‹ - the male homosexual secret - which reveals a more general notion of male secrecy in modern society. The study thus contributes to a better understanding of the cultural history of masculinities and sexualities.
American Studies. --- British Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- Gothic Novel. --- Henry James. --- Homosexuality. --- Literary Studies. --- Masculinity. --- Queer. --- Sensation Novel. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- Masculinity in literature. --- Erotic literature, English --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives. --- James, Henry, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature; Gender; Queer; Masculinity; Homosexuality; Gothic Novel; Sensation Novel; Henry James; Literary Studies; British Studies; American Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies
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The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between knowing and narration. Paul B. Armstrong here addresses the pivotal thematic experience of "bewilderment," an experience that challenges the reader's very sense of reality and that shows it to have no more certainty or stability than an interpretative construct. Through readings of The Sacred Fount and The Ambassadors by James, Lord Jim and Nostromo by Conrad, and The Good Soldier and Parade's End by Ford, Armstrong examines how each writer dramatizes his understanding of the act of knowing. Armstrong demonstrates how the novelists' attitudes toward the process of knowing inform experiments with representation, through which they thematize the relation between the understanding of a fictional world and everyday habits of perception. Finally, he considers how these experiments with the strategies of narration produce a heightened awareness of the process of interpretation.
English fiction --- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. --- Mimesis in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Ford, Ford Madox, --- James, Henry, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Representation (Literature) --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- Hueffer, Ford Madox, --- Hueffer, H. Ford, --- Huffer, Ford, --- Chaucer, Daniel, --- Hueffer, Ford Hermann, --- Hueffer, Ford M. --- Hueffer, Ford H. --- Haig, Fenil, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Dzheĭms, G. --- Dzheĭms, Genri, --- Jeimsŭ, Henri, --- Джеймс, Генри, --- ג׳יימס, הנרי, --- ג׳ײמס, הנרי, --- Τζειος, Χενρι, --- جميس، هينري، --- جيمز، هنرى --- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 --- History and criticism
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