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IMAGERY AND IDEA OF SCALE IN THREE STORIES BY HENRY JAMES

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1976
Summary:
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. 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.
Title: IMAGERY AND IDEA OF SCALE IN THREE STORIES BY HENRY JAMES.
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Name(s): JOHNSON, JO LYNN.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1976
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 70 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: 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. 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.
Identifier: 13806 (digitool), FADT13806 (IID), fau:10635 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.
Subject(s): James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation
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