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PATTERN OF DISTANCING IN THREE STORIES BY HENRY JAMES

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1978
Summary:
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 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.
Title: A PATTERN OF DISTANCING IN THREE STORIES BY HENRY JAMES.
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Name(s): GLADDING, MARTHA W.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1978
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 70 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: 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 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.
Identifier: 13932 (digitool), FADT13932 (IID), fau:10756 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1978.
Subject(s): James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.
Space and time in literature.
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