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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"1843-1916"”.
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Unlived Lives in Twentieth Century Narrative: Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Kazuo Ishiguro
… War and the Second World War – Henry James (1843-1916), Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-) – this thesis takes up the unexplored influence of ‘unlived lives’ on the form and content of twentieth century literature, and examines how each of these writers conceived of the …
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Henry James and the moral will
<p>Any act of literary criticism is presumptuous, but to contribute still another treatise on Henry James to the profuse analyses which already exist might seem sheer arrogance. I am not, however, so bold as to claim that the following study blazes with originality. It does offer, I think, more …
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Henry James: the texture of language in the later novels, 1897-1901
<p>My thesis takes a view articulated ten years ago by an English biographer of James: "Most wrong views of James are the result of insufficient attachment to his text, and to the habit of abstracting from it themes and morals instead of responding to its tone. The tone of his later books is the …
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The Double-Vision of Imagination : An Appraisal of Surface and Substance in the Fiction of Henry James
This study is concerned, primarily, with the faculty of the imagination, incidentally as a general concept, but chiefly in its application to the fictional and critical works of Henry James. A number of these works have been consulted with the intention of deriving, and subsequently illustrating, a …
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The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism
The history of personality in American literature has surprisingly little to do with the differentiating individuality we now tend to associate with the term. Scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American culture have defined personality either as the morally vacuous successor to the …