Theory of fiction: Henry James. / Edited with an introdroduction by James E. Miller, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Henry, 1843-1916.

Contributor:

Miller, James E. (James Edwin), 1920-2010, editor.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 366 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1972]

Contents:

Introduction: A theory of fiction in outline

"The art of fiction"

The writer and his culture

The writer and his experience. Part A: Impressions, perceptions, consciousness; Part B: Germs, seeds, plants

The writer and his imagination. Part A: The crucible of the imagination; Part B: The unconscious; Part C: The world of creation; Part D: Fertilization of subject by form

Definitions and discriminations. Part A: Novel, poem, play; Part B: Picture, anecdote, short story, nouvelle; Part C: allegory, the extraordinary, romance, fairy tale, ghost story

Subjects: The Whole Human Consciousness. Part A: Subject: given, important, free; Part B: The common, the vulgar, the ugly

Sex: An immense omission

Plots, actions, centers. Part A: Diffusion and concentration; Part B: Stories, adventures, ados: the drama of consciousness

Rendering: Execution. Part A: Art; Part B: Presence of the author; Part C: Picture, preparation, scene, drama; Part D: Foreshortening; time-sequence; dialogue

Characters. Part A: The dominance of characters; Part B: Characters: fiction and fact; Part C: Creation of characters; Part D: Special problems; special characters

Setting

Point of View

Form and Structure

Style. Part A: The unnatural style; Part B: The natural style; Part C: Style, thought, value; Part D: Language, speech, meaning

Morality and philosophy; meaning and theme. Part A: Morality and philosophy; Part B: Meaning and theme

Readers and critics. Part A: Readers; Part B: Critics

"The future of the novel".

Notes:

"This volume opens with James's famous essay, 'The Art of Fiction' (1884), and closes with a brief prophetic piece, 'The Future of the Novel' (1899). In between, in a systematic arrangement designed to give order and coherence to James's fictional theory, are brought together a collection of perceptions and insights drawn from the entire body of James's work, and ranging in date from 1865, when he was twenty-two years old, to 1915, the year before his death."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok September 1972".

Potok Collection copy is "Second printing: June 1972".

ISBN:

0803207999

OCLC:

287005