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The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James / John Carlos Rowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowe, John Carlos.
- Series:
- Wisconsin project on American writers.
- The Wisconsin project on American writers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reader-response criticism.
- Phenomenology and literature.
- Communism and literature.
- Psychoanalysis and literature--United States.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Feminism and literature--United States.
- Feminism and literature.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Psychological fiction, American.
- James, Henry, 1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.
- James, Henry.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 288 p. : port.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Henry James.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rowe examines James from the perspectives of the psychology of literary influence, feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, literary phenomenology and impressionism, and reader-response criticism, transforming a literary monument into the telling point of intersection for modern critical theories.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Henry James and Modern Criticism: Some Version of Literary Mastery
- Chapter 2: Literary Influences
- Part I: James's "Hawthorne" and the American Anxiety of Influence
- Part II: James, Trollope, and the Victorian Anxiety of Influence
- Chapter 3: Feminist Issues: Women, Power, and Rebellion in "The Bostonians", "The Spoils of Poynton" and "The Aspern Papers
- Chapter 4: Psychoanalytical Significances: The Use and Abuse of Uncertainty in "The Turn of the Screw
- Chapter 5: Social Values: The Marxist Critique of Modernism and "The Princess Casamassima
- Chapter 6: Phenomenological Hermeneutics: Henry James and Literary Impressionism
- Chapter 7: Forms of the Reader's Act: Author and Reader in the Prefaces to the New York Edition
- Phantoms
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [261]-284.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612731396
- 9781282731394
- 1282731394
- 9780299099732
- 0299099733
- OCLC:
- 550365350
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