UID:
edoccha_9958092342302883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 292 pages):
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illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-906924-36-8
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1-906924-38-4
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2-8218-1709-6
Content:
"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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preface / Dennis Tredy -- On 'The European Society of Jamesian Studies' / Adrian Harding -- Part 1: Ethics and Aesthetics -- 1. Henry James on Opening the Door to the Devil / Jean Gooder -- 2. From Romance to Redemption: James and the Ethics of Globalization / Roxana Oltean -- 3. James's Sociology of Taste: The Ambassadors, Commodity Consumption and Cultural Critique / Esther Sanchez-Pardo -- 4. Bad Investments / Eric Savoy -- Part 2: French and Italian Hours -- 5. 'The Crash of Civilization': James and the Idea of France, 1914-15 / Hazel Hutchison -- 6. The Citizens of Babylon and the Imperial Imperative: James's Modern Parisian Women / Claire Garcia -- 7. French as the Fantasmal Idiom of Truth in What Maisie Knew / Agnès Derail-Imbert -- 8. Figures of Fulfilment: James and 'a Sense of Italy' / Jacek Gutorow -- 9. The Aspern Papers: from Florence to an Intertextual City, Venice / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi -- 10. The Wavering Ruins of The American / Enrico Botta-- ‡a Part 3: Appropriating European Thematics -- 11. Balzacian Intertextuality and Jamesian Autobiography in The Ambassadors / Kathleen Lawrence -- 12. A Discordance Between the Self and the World: The Collector in Balzac's Cousin Pons and James's 'Adina' / Simone Francescato -- 13. 'Déjà vu' in 'The Turn of the Screw' / Max Duperray -- Part 4: Allusion 14. Some Allusions in the Early Stories / Angus Wrenn -- 15. C'est strictement confidentiel: Buried Allusions in Confidence (1879) / Rebekah Scott -- 16. James and the Habit of Allusion / Oliver Herford -- Part 5: Performance -- 17. The Absent Writer in The Tragic Muse / Nelly Valtat-Comet -- 18. James and the 'Paradox of the Comedian' / Richard Anker -- 19. Benjamin Britten's Appropriation of James in 'Owen Wingrave' / Hubert Teyssandier -- Part 6: Authorship and Self-Representation -- 20. Narrative Heterogeneity as an Adjustable Fictional Lens in The American Scene / Eleftheria Arapoglou-- ‡a 21. James's Faces: Appearance, Absorption and the Aesthetic Significance of the Face / Jakob Stougaard-Nielson -- 22. From Copying to Revision: The American to The Ambassadors / Paula Marantz Cohen -- 23. Friction with the Publishers, or How James Manipulated his Editors in the Early 1870's / Pierre A. Walker -- 24. Losing Oneself: Autobiography, Memory, Vision / John Holland -- Bibliography of works cited -- Index.
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-906924-37-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
