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HENRY JAMES'S REVISION OF "THE PUPIL."

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1972
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Henry James's revision of "The Pupil" conforms to a plan of revision which contradicts, in part, the assertion that "late" James is deliberately obscure. In preparing the story for the New York Edition, James simplified its style and clarified its meaning, but did not alter the overall structure. Punctuation is repeatedly made less obstructive, through hundreds of sub-stitutions or eliminations. Sentence structure is often simplified by reduction of predicationJ Two clauses are telescoped into one and clauses are reduced to phrases. Vocabulary revisions are sometimes made to remove clumsy expressions or simply to suit what the author felt to be the best phrasing. More often, such changes create subtle shifts in meaning. In addition to direct revisions which state his themes more precisely, James introduced new and more coherent imagery. The cumulative effect of these revisions is to meticulously redefine, but not change, the characterization.
Title: HENRY JAMES'S REVISION OF "THE PUPIL.".
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Name(s): MYERS, JAMES VINCENT.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Coyle, William, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1972
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 51 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Henry James's revision of "The Pupil" conforms to a plan of revision which contradicts, in part, the assertion that "late" James is deliberately obscure. In preparing the story for the New York Edition, James simplified its style and clarified its meaning, but did not alter the overall structure. Punctuation is repeatedly made less obstructive, through hundreds of sub-stitutions or eliminations. Sentence structure is often simplified by reduction of predicationJ Two clauses are telescoped into one and clauses are reduced to phrases. Vocabulary revisions are sometimes made to remove clumsy expressions or simply to suit what the author felt to be the best phrasing. More often, such changes create subtle shifts in meaning. In addition to direct revisions which state his themes more precisely, James introduced new and more coherent imagery. The cumulative effect of these revisions is to meticulously redefine, but not change, the characterization.
Identifier: 13513 (digitool), FADT13513 (IID), fau:10357 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.
Subject(s): James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism, Textual.
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