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The Grasping Imagination : the American Writings of Henry James.
This study places James's career in a new perspective by discussing its American aspect. It gives the critic an opportunity to come to grips with the evolution of James's technique from his second short story to his penultimate, unfinished novel, The Ivory Tower.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1970.
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| Colección: | Heritage.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Civil War and Harvard's Tented Field
- 2 Literary Influences: All the Breezes of the West
- 3 The Hawthorne Aspect
- 4 Transatlantic Trials
- 5 A Certain Form: Watch and Ward
- 6 Experiment and Decision: The Attempt to Be an American Artist
- 7 Comic Pastoral: The Europeans
- 8 American Episodes and The Portrait of a Lady
- 9 Points of View
- 10 Evasive Boston and Threadbare Internationalism
- 11 A Very American Tale: The Bostonians
- 12 English Years and American Letters
- 13 The Restless Analyst of the American Scene
- 14 Undiscovered America
- 15 In the Finer Grain
- 16 The Fresh Start and the Broken Link: The Ivory Tower
- 17 The Obstinate Finality
- Bibliographical Note
- Abbreviations and Short Titles
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Illustrations by Alvin Langdon Coburn.