Henry James's Europe : heritage and transfer /
"As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers f...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Dennis Tredy
- On 'The European Society of Jamesian Studies' / Adrian Harding
- I: Ethics and Aesthetics. Henry James on Opening the Door to the Devil / Jean Gooder
- From Romance to Redemption: James and the Ethics of Globalization / Roxana Oltean
- James's Sociology of Taste: The Ambassadors, Commodity Consumption and Cultural Critique / Esther Sánchez -Pardo
- Bad Investments / Eric Savoy
- II: French and Italian Hours. 'The Crash of Civilization': James and the Idea of France, 1914-15 / Hazel Hutchison
- The Citizens of Babylon and the Imperial Imperative: Henry James's Modern Parisian Women / Claire Garcia
- French as the Fantasmal Idiom of Truth in What Maisie Knew / Agnès Derail-Imbert
- Figures of Fulfilment: James and 'a Sense of Italy' / Jacek Guthorow
- The Aspern Papers : From Florence to an Intertexual City, Venice / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
- The Wavering Ruins of The American / Enrico Botta
- III: Appropriating European Thematics. Balzacian Intertextuality and Jamesian Autobiography in The Ambassadors / Kathleen Lawrence
- A Discordance Between the Self and the World: The Collector in Balzac's Cousin Pons and James's 'Adina' / Simone Francescato
- The 'déjà vu' in 'The Turn of the Screw' / Max Duperray
- IV: Allusion. Some Allusions in the Early Stories / Angus Wrenn
- C'est strictement confidentiel : Buried Allusions in Confidence (1879) / Rebekah Scott
- James and the Habit of Allusion / Oliver Herford
- V: Performance. The Absent Writer in The Tragic Muse / Nelly Valtat-Comet
- James and the 'Paradox of the Comedian' / Richard Anker
- Benjamin Britten's Appropriation of James in Owen Wingrave / Hubert Teyssandier
- VI: Authorship and Self-Representation. Narrative Heterogeneity as an Adjustable Fictional Lens in The American Scene / Eleftheria Arapoglou
- James's Faces: Appearance, Absorption and the Aesthetic Significance of the Face Jakob / Stougaard-Nielsen
- From Copying to Revision: The American to The Ambassadors / Paula Marantz Cohen
- Friction with the Publishers, or How James Manipulated his Editors in the Early 1870's / Pierre A. Walker
- Losing Oneself: Autobiography, Memory, Vision / John Holland
- Bibliography of Works Cited Index.