Ethical Aestheticism In The Early Works Of Henry James

Author : Tomoko Eguchi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443894117
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Aestheticism in the Early Works of Henry James written by Tomoko Eguchi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study re-locates the work of Henry James by revealing parallels between the aestheticism of John Ruskin and that of James. It explores a mix of well-known fictional texts alongside James’s essays and tales, which are less frequently analysed, but which, nevertheless, offer important insights into James’s attitude to his artistic method. Tracing James’s early development in comparison with Ruskin’s, this book also explores German Romantic thought and the idealism of Kant, Goethe and Hegel. While examining the German connections with James, this study is also alert to James’s relations with Walter Pater and French realism, to which James became increasingly close in the mid-1880s. Rather than placing James within one single category, it demonstrates how James interfused Romanticism and realism in establishing his own form of aestheticism. Shedding light on James’s period of apprenticeship, this book therefore articulates the Victorian concept of ‘aestheticism’ as used by James and Ruskin.

Author : Sigi Jottkandt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482758
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acting Beautifully written by Sigi Jottkandt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the matter with the women in Henry James? In The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and his short story "The Altar of the Dead," one woman returns to a monster of a husband, another dies rather than confront the truth of her lover's engagement, while yet another stakes her all on having a candle lit for a dead lover, only to promptly reject it. Exploring these strange choices, Sigi Jöttkandt argues that the singularity of these acts lies in their ethical nature, and that the ethical principle involved cannot be divorced from the question of aesthetics. She combines close readings of James with suggestive tours through Kantian aesthetics and set theory to uncover the aesthetic underpinning of the Lacanian ethical act, which has been largely overlooked in the current drive to discover a Cartesian origin for the subject as the subject of science.

Author : Akila Mohamed El-Metwalli Ramadan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Aesthetics in Henry James's Early and Middle Works written by Akila Mohamed El-Metwalli Ramadan and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard A. Hocks
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640244
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry James and Pragmatistic Thought written by Richard A. Hocks and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant new study is the first comprehensive and penetrating exploration of the complex and important aesthetic and intellectual relationship between the Jameses. Hocks relates organically what William thought to how Henry thought, and his convincing argument becomes a profound examination of Henry's mind and the way in which his work dramatized a particular philosophical attitude through its unique and felicitous style. Originally published in 1974. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Michele Mendelssohn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748697543
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture written by Michele Mendelssohn and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473366216
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rose-Agathe (1878) written by Henry James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-03 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1878 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated to London, where he remained for the vast majority of the rest of his life, becoming a British citizen in 1915. From this point on, he was a hugely prolific author, eventually producing twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories and novellas, as well as literary criticism, plays and travelogues. Amongst James's most famous works are The Europeans (1878), Daisy Miller (1878), Washington Square (1880), The Bostonians (1886), and one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, The Turn of the Screw (1898). We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Dennis Tredy
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924368
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry James's Europe written by Dennis Tredy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequentlywrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. Theplight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophisticationbecame a regular theme in his fiction.This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world's leadingJames scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author's crossculturalaesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception ofEurope - of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists andthinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics - which ultimately lead to a profoundreevaluation of his writing.With in-depth analysis of his works of fiction, his autobiographical andpersonal writings, and his critical works, the collection is a major contribution to current thinking about James, transtextuality and cultural appropriation.

Author : Sigi Jottkandt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sublime Beauty written by Sigi Jottkandt and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Choon-Hee Kim
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527546454
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West written by Choon-Hee Kim and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work and influenced his legacy through the themes of Jamesian cultural anxiety between and beyond spatio-temporal boundaries. As such, each chapter constructs a mode of reading to map and formulate one’s own cultural perspective in various contexts relying on their unique engagement with James’s and Jamesian creative acts of writing—aesthetics and science, the (auto-)biographical as social aspects, genre as literary-social context, the artistic and the economic, editorship and readership, and Asian perspectives on cultural influences and identities—to generate insights and establish new intercultural understandings. These are the traces of the contributors’ national, social, cultural consciousness that allow the definition of the Jamesian worldview as a particularly universal one in a global context.

Author : David McWhirter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514614
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry James in Context written by David McWhirter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest single volume work of reference on James's life and his interactions with the world around him.