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Henry James - The Later Writing (Paperback, Digital original)
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Henry James - The Later Writing (Paperback, Digital original)
Series: Writers and Their Work
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Loot Price R290
Discovery Miles 2 900
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Barbara Hardy has concentrated on the late period from 1900 to
1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The
Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, The Sacred
Fount, the great ghost-story, The Jolly Corner and other tales,
autobiography, travel and the influential criticism. She has been
writing about James since the fifties and draws on long experience
of teaching James - to addicts, hostile parodists, and persevering
fiction-lovers fascinated by a demandingly extravagant and original
novelist. She offers new readings of the major novels, and
revaluation of the literary criticism in the context of later
ideas, which James's theory and practice anticipate. Her close
analysis traces generative imaging-making and reflexive
story-telling, following two dominant and complementary themes, the
social construction of character, and creative imagination: James
dramatises the power of environment, to dismiss essentialism and
ask the key question 'What shall we call the self?'; and he is a
disturbing analyst of inner life, catching its fantasies,
revisions, and speculations in self-referential language. This
study of the most innovative of Victorian and Edwardian novelists
will interest new and old Jamesians, novel-readers and students at
all levels.
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