Culture and Criticism in Henry James
Author : Dietmar Schloss
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Civilization in literature
ISBN : 9783823350224
Author : Dietmar Schloss
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Civilization in literature
ISBN : 9783823350224
Author : Henry James
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803276192
This text presents a collection of 18 articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. They focus on questions of gender and manners, religion and metaphysics, as well as grouping together all of his works on World War I.
Author : Dietmar Otto Schloss
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Richard Salmon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521562492
This book examines the relationship between the writings of Henry James and the historical formation of mass culture. Throughout his career, James was concerned with such characteristically modern cultural forms as advertising, biography and the New Journalism, forms which together constituted the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. Richard Salmon's study situates James's fiction and criticism within the context of the contemporary debates surrounding these rival discursive practices. He explores both the nature of James's contribution to the critique of mass culture and the extent of his immersion within it. James's persistent and ambivalent negotiation of the boundaries between private and public experience ranged from a defence of the artist's right to privacy, to his own counter-practice of publicity.
Author : Kevin Ohi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816665112
The true meaning of being fashionably late in Henry James's late works.
Author : Michele Mendelssohn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748697543
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 : Dennis Tredy
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1906924368
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequentlywrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. Theplight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophisticationbecame a regular theme in his fiction.This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world's leadingJames scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author's crossculturalaesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception ofEurope - of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists andthinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics - which ultimately lead to a profoundreevaluation of his writing.With in-depth analysis of his works of fiction, his autobiographical andpersonal writings, and his critical works, the collection is a major contribution to current thinking about James, transtextuality and cultural appropriation.
Author : Alwyn Berland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 1981-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521233437
Analyzing Henry James' conception of civilization as culture and the relationship of this conception to his major works, Berland argues that James brought to his fiction the moral commitment that characterized a Puritan New England and a dedication to the aesthetic culture he found in England and in Europe. He concludes that these commitments provide James with his major themes, characters and fictional techniques and the two immutable Jamesian laws : Europe is better than America, but Americans are better than Europeans.
Author : Sara Blair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521497503
This 1996 book describes a new Henry James who, rather than being paraded as a beacon of high culture, actually expresses a nuanced understanding of, and engagement with, popular culture. Arguing against recent trends in critical studies which locate racial resistance in popular culture, Sara Blair uncovers this resistance within literature and high modernism. She analyses a variety of texts from early travel writing to The Princess Casamassima, The American Scene and The Tragic Muse, always setting the scene through descriptions of key events of the time such as Jack the Ripper's murders. Blair makes a powerful case for reading James with a sense of sustained contradiction and her project absorbingly argues for the historical and ongoing importance of literary texts and discourses to the study of culture and cultural value.
Author : Miranda El-Rayess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107039053
This book focuses on Henry James's engagement with the fast-developing consumer culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.