After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In The Ivory Tower, his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction--in which American innocence is transformed ...
It is suggested that James's late style and novelistic technique require the reader to tolerate confusion and uncertainty. As the perspective shifts from one protagonist to another, we ourselves are in danger of 'missing what is true' in this characteristic Jamesian scenario, where relationships ...
This etext was prepared by Richard Farris (rf7211@hotmail.com), and proofread by the online team at Distributed Proofreaders. ITALIAN HOURS BY HENRY JAMES PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1909 PREFACE The chapters of which this volume is composed have with few excepti
What influenced James Joyce's novel Ulysses? What is a common characteristic of John Updike's writing? What did Shakespeare write before Othello? What did Herman Melville write? Describe William Golding's writing style In O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," of what two possessions are the ...
(5) James in not easy to understand. His subtleties of literary form, his extremely complex and refined prose, his minute explorations of his character's perceptions, and his profound psychological insight are all characteristic of the subtle, mature, and urbane Jamesian style which exerts ...
James shifted the ground of realistic art from the outer to the inner world. D.Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local places, which he knew best. He drew heavily from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places. He confined himself to the life ...
The tension between these two understandings of “appear” as either a representation or realization is characteristic of the variety of voices audible in the Prefaces, where James’s tone is so frequently “apologetic” and“assertive” (Wilson 2017, p. 256). Here, the difference between an ...
Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following: a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect; a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and ment...
But the general characteristic of the self-made girl was that, though it was frequently understood that she was privately devoted to her kindred, she never attempted to impose them on society, and it was striking that, though in some of her manifestations a bore, she was at her worst less...
I was 12 years old when on AM radio I first heard James Taylor singing his song, “Fire and Rain”. This exposure was the first of many to a singer/songwriter that in many ways wrote and sang a part of the soundtrack to my early life. I loved his spare arrangements, and the plain...