In this major new study of Henry James' classic text of cultural criticism, The American Scene, Beverly Haviland shows how James confronted the vexing problem of making sense of the past so that he could make culture work. In this record of his 1904-5 return to America and in his ...
The American Scene thus becomes dramatic because it enacts James's efforts at interpretation. He tends to polarize America into the country on the one hand and the city on the other. The country is comparatively easy for him to 'compose' which he does through a pastoral and painterly ...
美国游记(The American Scene)简介: To be an American is, as Henry James famously observed, a "complex fate." But complexity was that rococo master's stock-in-trade, which may explain why he returned to his native country in 1904 after an absence of more than 20 years. To be sure, he...
Henry James and the Art of Power (1984) ‐ Mark Seltzer posits that James's techniques reproduce social modes of policing and regulationJames's active dramatizing of “action of Ellis Island on the spirit of any sensitive citizen” in the non‐fictional American Scene...
& James Ivory, causing a small resurgence of interest in his works. Among the best known of these include the short works "Daisy Miller", "Washington Square", and "The Turn of the Screw", and the novels The Portrait of a Lady, The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors, and The American. ...
作者: Richard Howard / Henry James 出版社: Library of America副标题: Collected Travel Writings : Great Britain and America : English Hours / The American Scene / Other Travels出版年: 1993-9-1页数: 868定价: USD 40.00装帧: Hardcover丛书: Library of America...
亨利·詹姆斯(Henry James)是美国杰出的小说家和文学批评家,代表作有长篇小说《美国人》(The American)、《一位女士的画像》(The Portrait of a Lady)、《鸽翼》(The Wings of the Dove)、《使节》(The Ambassadors)和《金碗》(The Golden Bow...
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LatePeriod(1895-1916):arevivalofthethemeofinnocenceinacorruptedworldand“theinternationaltheme”.majorworks:1895-1990:TheTurnoftheScrew(1898),WhatMaisieKnew(1897),etc.1900-1904:TheAmbassadors(1903),TheWingsoftheDove(1902),andTheGoldenBowl(1904),etc.1904-1916:TheAmericanScene(1907),etc.HenryJame...