Performing The Everyday In Henry Jamess Late Novels

Author : Maya Higashi Wakana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317082214
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels written by Maya Higashi Wakana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on James's last three completed novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl - Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James's novels radically revises the widespread tradition of putting James's characters into historical and cultural contexts. Wakana begins with the premise that day-to-day living is inherently theatrical and thus duplicitous, and goes on to show that James's art relies significantly on his powerful sense of the agonizing and even dangerous complications of mundane face-to-face rituals that pervade his work. Centrally informed by social thinkers such as G. H. Mead and Erving Goffman, Wakana's study discloses the richness, complexity, and singularity of the interpersonal connections depicted in James's late novels. Persuasively argued, and rich in original close readings, her book makes an important contribution to James's studies and to theories of social interaction.

Author : Wibke Schniedermann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030441091
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels written by Wibke Schniedermann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the gendered power relations in James’s novels. Reading James’s narrative form through the lens of relational sociology, specifically Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic domination, reconciles some of the most fiercely disputed positions in James studies of the past decades. The close readings focus on three novels, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, providing a systematic relational analysis into the specifically Jamesian method of narrating the socio-psychological, embodied responses to masculine power and oppression. James persistently narrates his characters as social agents whose perception, affects, and bodily practices are products of the social structures that they in turn continue to shape and reproduce. The chapters trace a development throughout James’s career that reflects a growing sensitivity for the concealment and attendant misrecognition of gendered domination.

Author : Anna De Biasio
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443867888
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Henry James written by Anna De Biasio and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing a wide range of interpretive and theoretical approaches, this collection brings together distinguished James scholars from four continents to elicit new and exciting readings of a diverse array of James’s fiction and non-fiction. Through their transformative acts, the essays investigate James’s life-long engagement with cities, places, and tourist sites; offer theoretically informed readings of his work’s textual richness; and explore his intricate involvement with social and cultural issues, such as gender and sexuality, economics, friendship and hospitality, and visual culture. Arranged under rubrics which signal the complex interrelations of Henry James as a historical individual and of the works he authored with a web of social, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical discourses, the contributions collected in this book make a convincing case for the ongoing productivity of James’s oeuvre when interrogated from new critical angles and, therefore, for its enduring centrality to the concerns of literary and cultural studies.

Author : Maya Higashi Wakana
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319939912
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot written by Maya Higashi Wakana and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot analyzes literary reproductions of everyday intimacies through a microsociological lens to demonstrate the value of reading microsocially. The text investigates the interplay between author, character, and reader and considers such concepts as face and moments of embarrassment to emphasize how art and life are inseparable. Drawing on narrative theory, the phenomenological approach, and macro approaches, Maya Higashi Wakana examines Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Wharton’s Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence, and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this book provides new ways of reading the everyday in literature.

Author : Alex Hobbs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442266791
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging Masculinity in the American Novel written by Alex Hobbs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As each generation confronts aging and responds to its challenges, the literary community—ranging from Philip Roth to Jonathan Franzen—has provided nuanced and thoughtful depictions that transcend stereotypes of old men as feeble and broken individuals. Under the sage guidance of these authors—many facing old age themselves—older male characters have become increasingly prevalent in literary fiction. In Aging Masculinity in the American Novel, Alex Hobbs turns the spotlight on matters related to later life by examining a broad range of works. Hobbs looks at novels not only by literary lions of the Baby Boom generation, but authors on the cusp of old age who anticipate its consequences. In addition to works by Jonathan Franzen, Paul Auster, and Ethan Canin, the author considers the perspectives of female writers, such as Marilynne Robinson, Anne Tyler, and Jane Smiley, who have created complex older male characters. Hobbs argues that previous studies regarding male aging in popular culture have been reductive, and she suggests that male and female experiences and interpretations of aging are individualistic and unique. With a bold argument for how readers should contemplate masculinity in literary fiction, this book helps us better understand the full range of issues that older men face—from legacy and loss to health issues and grace. The author’s illuminating and persuasive perspectives will ignite a new way of thinking about this subject and its central place in the national conversation. Looking at how older men’s lives are documented in American fiction, Aging Masculinity in the American Novel will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, gender studies, aging studies, and literature.

Author : William R. Macnaughton
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry James written by William R. Macnaughton and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macnaughton's interpretations consolidate previous criticism af each work, plus gives fresh insights into technique, structure, theme, and psychology.

Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Short Novels of Henry James written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022813922
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Novels and Tales of Henry James; Volume 8 written by Henry James and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James was one of the most influential writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book brings together his most important works, including The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw, among others. James' writing captures the complexities of human relationships in a way that is both poignant and insightful. This volume is a must-read for lovers of classic literature and anyone interested in exploring the works of a true master of the craft. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Joseph Warren Beach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Method of Henry James written by Joseph Warren Beach and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tessa Hadley
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062476718
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late in the Day written by Tessa Hadley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With each new book by Tessa Hadley, I grow more convinced that she’s one of the greatest stylists alive.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice |A Parnassus First Editions Club Pick | Powell’s Indispensable Book Club Pick | A Washington Post Notable Book | A Slate Best Book of the Year | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year | A Bookpage Best Book of the Year The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in the latest from Tessa Hadley, the acclaimed novelist and short story master who “recruits admirers with each book” (Hilary Mantel). Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer’s evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead. In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach, with his generous, grounded spirit, was the irreplaceable one they couldn’t afford to lose. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness. Late in the Day explores the complex webs at the center of our most intimate relationships, to expose how, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives, lie infinite alternate configurations. Ingeniously moving between past and present and through the intricacies of her characters’ thoughts and interactions, Tessa Hadley once again “crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural” (Washington Post).