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- POLARITIES OF AGE IN THE FICTION OF HENRY JAMES.
- Creator
- HENDRICKS, VICKI DUE., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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Henry James's concern with "age," both as concept and in regard to character, involves variable temporal factors such as simple chronological age as opposed to, for instance, psychological age. The particular manifestations of age can be categorized ucder the headings of ambiguity, transformation and paradox. These techniques arise throughout James's fiction as a result of underlying polarity. Polarity, which is characterized by interpenetrated possibilities, can be linked to William James's...
Show moreHenry James's concern with "age," both as concept and in regard to character, involves variable temporal factors such as simple chronological age as opposed to, for instance, psychological age. The particular manifestations of age can be categorized ucder the headings of ambiguity, transformation and paradox. These techniques arise throughout James's fiction as a result of underlying polarity. Polarity, which is characterized by interpenetrated possibilities, can be linked to William James's pragmatism, thereby elucidating Henry's tendency toward pragmatistic thought. Works chosen to represent ambiguities of age are The Awkward Age, "The Middle Years," and "The Jolly Corner"; transformation, "The Last of the Valerii," "The Aspern Papers," The Golden Bowl , and The Ambassadors; paradox, "Daisy Miller, "The Pupil," The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl.
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- 1979
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14002
- Subject Headings
- James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation
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- IMAGERY AND IDEA OF SCALE IN THREE STORIES BY HENRY JAMES.
- Creator
- JOHNSON, JO LYNN., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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Language of spatial movement, the arbitrary placement of values on a vertical scale, operates in the fiction of James as a means of expressing central themes, as well as minor themes that "depend" from them. The placement of something on a scale, either high or low, indicates the difficulty of permanence or of "fixing" in a world where change is a necessary condition of life. In "The Lesson of the Master" the idea of perfection as the apex of the vertical scale develops conflicts and ironies....
Show moreLanguage of spatial movement, the arbitrary placement of values on a vertical scale, operates in the fiction of James as a means of expressing central themes, as well as minor themes that "depend" from them. The placement of something on a scale, either high or low, indicates the difficulty of permanence or of "fixing" in a world where change is a necessary condition of life. In "The Lesson of the Master" the idea of perfection as the apex of the vertical scale develops conflicts and ironies. The artistnarrator in "The Real Thing" thinks in terms of the paradoxical perpendicular scale in practicing his art of illustration. In "The Birthplace" Morris Gedge manifests a more complex, ironical version of this idea in his obtuse and non-fixed values.
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- 1976
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13806
- Subject Headings
- James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
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- A textual comparison of Henry James's "An International Episode".
- Creator
- Wilson, Mary Kay., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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In revising his works for inclusion in the New York Edition, James shows his artistic growth. The revised text of An International Episode, James's tale of the English in America and the Americans in England, startles the reader who compares it with the earlier Cornhill publication. The characters, as well as the worlds that they inhabit and visit, are changed by James's additions of new dialogue and description. An International Episode was initially reviewed as unfairly satirical in its...
Show moreIn revising his works for inclusion in the New York Edition, James shows his artistic growth. The revised text of An International Episode, James's tale of the English in America and the Americans in England, startles the reader who compares it with the earlier Cornhill publication. The characters, as well as the worlds that they inhabit and visit, are changed by James's additions of new dialogue and description. An International Episode was initially reviewed as unfairly satirical in its portrayal of English customs and English characters. My thesis argues that many changes to the original text were James's response to this criticism. His text for the New York Edition shows a balancing of English and American characterizations, revealing a more equal satire.
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- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15182
- Subject Headings
- James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation, James, Henry,--1843-1916--International episode
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- SELF-TOUCH IN HENRY JAMES'S MAJOR PHASE.
- Creator
- Martin, James, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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The three novels of Henry James’s “major phase” have alienated many readers in James’s own time and today. I draw on the philosophical school of phenomenology, in particular the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a recent extension by the philosopher Richard Kearney, to suggest that a lack of self-touch by characters in these novels has contributed in a significant but previously unnoticed way to many readers’ sense that these novels feel frustratingly intangible. I make a comparison to the...
Show moreThe three novels of Henry James’s “major phase” have alienated many readers in James’s own time and today. I draw on the philosophical school of phenomenology, in particular the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a recent extension by the philosopher Richard Kearney, to suggest that a lack of self-touch by characters in these novels has contributed in a significant but previously unnoticed way to many readers’ sense that these novels feel frustratingly intangible. I make a comparison to the instances of self-touch in other Edwardian novels to underline the difference. I suggest that James is putting forward a model of “middle-distance intimacy” in which intimates orbit each other at a fixed distance, neither coming closer nor moving further away. This kind of intimacy, for James, privileges the eye that sees from across the room over the hand that touches from up close. While this model of intimacy perplexed many readers in James’s time and later, it is a valuable exploration of a different yet—for some—no less satisfactory kind of emotional life.
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- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014144
- Subject Headings
- James, Henry, 1843-1916, James, Henry, 1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation, Comparative studies
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- Document (PDF)
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- A PATTERN OF DISTANCING IN THREE STORIES BY HENRY JAMES.
- Creator
- GLADDING, MARTHA W., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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Henry James's structuring of time and space in three short stories is intrinsically related to his overall treatment of the development of the characters' consciousnesses. Caroline Spencer ("Four Meetings"), Paul Overt ("The Lesson of the Master"), and John Marcher ("The Beast in the Jungle") are continually faced, in che present context of their experience, with knm·1ledge and reality which they are unable to recognize. Only after extended absences from other characters do they perceive...
Show moreHenry James's structuring of time and space in three short stories is intrinsically related to his overall treatment of the development of the characters' consciousnesses. Caroline Spencer ("Four Meetings"), Paul Overt ("The Lesson of the Master"), and John Marcher ("The Beast in the Jungle") are continually faced, in che present context of their experience, with knm·1ledge and reality which they are unable to recognize. Only after extended absences from other characters do they perceive truths about themselves and others in scenes of personal loss and failure. Distancing in time and space is ultimately necessary, in the structures of these three stories and the consciousnesses of their characters, for emotional and intellectual awareness. This pattern is noticeable in James's early period and becomes progressively more refined from the middle to the late fiction.
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- 1978
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13932
- Subject Headings
- James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation., Space and time in literature.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Henry James and Plato: Divining the truth in "What Maisie Knew".
- Creator
- Marquart, Rosanne B., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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Henry James's and Plato's presumed ideological incompatibility is fostered in part by the philosopher's well documented censure of literature and the arts and by his belief that true knowledge is secured by purely rational apprehension. Henry James, however, contends that the philosopher and novelist have comparable concerns, for both seek truth and the origins and meaning of virtue. Plato's conception of knowledge and ethics, however, differs markedly from James's: if true knowledge is...
Show moreHenry James's and Plato's presumed ideological incompatibility is fostered in part by the philosopher's well documented censure of literature and the arts and by his belief that true knowledge is secured by purely rational apprehension. Henry James, however, contends that the philosopher and novelist have comparable concerns, for both seek truth and the origins and meaning of virtue. Plato's conception of knowledge and ethics, however, differs markedly from James's: if true knowledge is commensurate with rational apprehension, emotions and imagination distort rather than elucidate truth. Yet is there but a single path to knowledge? In What Maisie Knew James illustrates that learning, like narrative, is an experiential process involving intuition, emotion, and imagination. Moreover, although Jamesian and Platonic thought may appear antithetical, a comprehensive study of their works reveals not only the expected differences, but certain unexpected discursive and ideological similarities.
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- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15360
- Subject Headings
- James, Henry,--1843-1916--What Maisie knew, James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation, Plato--Influence, Ethics, Philosophy in literature, Literature and morals
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- Document (PDF)
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- The "anomaly" in Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady".
- Creator
- Liotta, Leonard Thomas., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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The word "anomaly" in The Portrait of a Lady forms a nexus of meanings derived from its denotative and connotative meanings. This complex of meaning bring in focus phenomenological aspects of character, action, and style translating into larger thematic concepts to create a level of understanding deepening the experience of the novel. Isabel Archer is examined for her anomalous portrayal of a modern character whose complexity emerges as a dynamic of the anomalous and the vulgar that are...
Show moreThe word "anomaly" in The Portrait of a Lady forms a nexus of meanings derived from its denotative and connotative meanings. This complex of meaning bring in focus phenomenological aspects of character, action, and style translating into larger thematic concepts to create a level of understanding deepening the experience of the novel. Isabel Archer is examined for her anomalous portrayal of a modern character whose complexity emerges as a dynamic of the anomalous and the vulgar that are distinguishable but ultimately inseparable. Using a phenomenological approach, the word "anomaly," as recurring descriptive term, can be studied in its juxtaposition to other words, such as vulgarity, providing additional insight into characterization and action in Portrait of a Lady.
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- 2000
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15777
- Subject Headings
- James, Henry,--1843-1916--Portrait of a lady, James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation, James, Henry,--1843-1916--Characters--Isabel Archer, Archer, Isabel (Fictitious character)
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- The telegraphist's odyssean journey in Henry James's "In the Cage".
- Creator
- Olson, Peter J., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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Henry James's In the Cage offers a character, a young female telegraphist, who constantly applies theories to and comes up with interpretations of the people, objects, and events that make up the world outside her cage. The experiences she undergoes with the telegrams' ambiguous messages and her customers' strange actions compel her to weave an intricate drama that not only clears up the ambiguities but also allows her to play an important role. She creates a subjective reality through which...
Show moreHenry James's In the Cage offers a character, a young female telegraphist, who constantly applies theories to and comes up with interpretations of the people, objects, and events that make up the world outside her cage. The experiences she undergoes with the telegrams' ambiguous messages and her customers' strange actions compel her to weave an intricate drama that not only clears up the ambiguities but also allows her to play an important role. She creates a subjective reality through which she can embark on an exciting, dangerous adventure. This reality, however, is not immutable. When faced with new sets of circumstances, new flashes from the outside world, she struggles to re-work her interpretations and re-create her fiction; like Odysseus, she is forced to submit to an overwhelming external power and find a new path on which to travel.
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- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15346
- Subject Headings
- James, Henry,--1843-1916--In the cage, James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation, James, Henry,--1843-1916--Technique, Homer--Odyssea, Ambiguity in literature, Narration (Rhetoric)
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- Document (PDF)