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Adam Verver
artistic responsibility in literature
Aspern Papers
Author_Ilona Treitel
Bloom Claims
Category=DSK
comparative literature analysis
creative artist
Dichtung Und Wahrheit
Doctor Faustus
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Fairy Tale
Golden Bowl
Grand Duchy
Hanno Buddenbrook
interpretive process
Interpretive Struggle
intertextuality in novels
James's critical writings
James's Novella
John Marcher
Lancaster Gate
Le Stade Du Miroir
Lord Mark
Mann's artist figures
Mann's Doctor Faustus
modernist fiction studies
Narcissistic Scar
narrative theory
Peter Sherringham
psychoanalytic criticism
reader response theory
Royal Highness
Sacred Fount
Thomas Buddenbrook
Tiger Hunt
Tragic Muse
Von Knobelsdorff
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815321811
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1996. This comparative study investigates thematic and technical similarities in the works of the two authors who shared a cultural heritage and achieved comparable status in their separate literary traditions. Drawing upon theories by Bloom, Bakhtin, and Lacan, the book examines ways in which Henry James and Thomas Mann treat the creative artist and analyze the creative and interpretive processes in their fiction. The texts covered range from early works to their great modern novels: The Golden Bowl and Doctor Faustus To a great extent, the similarities between the works stem from the authors' preoccupation with artistic responsibility. Adopting Bloom's claim that the creative activity is an interpretive one, and that the reader, as well as the writer, interprets a text into being the book also investigates the reader's responsibility in confronting the dilemmas challenging James' and Mann's artist figures. Such challenges are the dangers of interpretation discussed in this book. Index. Bibliography.
