A01=Denis Flannery
Adam Verver
aesthetic absorption
Aspern Papers
Author_Denis Flannery
authorial personality
Basil Ransom
bowl
casamassima
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Countess Gemini
critique
Dense
Dove Image
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gender in fiction
golden
Golden Bowl
illusion in nineteenth-century novels
isabel
Isabel Archer
james's
James's Career
James's Criticism
James's Narrator
James's Text
LCI
literary theory
Lord Mark
Madame De Vionnet
Minny Temple
Mrs Touchett
muse
narrative illusion
Novelistic Illusion
Olive Chancellor
Peter Sherringham
Place De La Revolution
princess
Princess Casamassima
realism critique
Restless Brain
text
tragic
Tragic Muse
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754602484
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that makes it appear to us that we have lived another life, that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience. Henry James A concept of 'illusion' was fundamental to the theory and practice of literary representation in Henry James. This book offers readings of James' fictional and critical texts that are informed by the certainty of illusion, and links James' mode of illusion with a number of concerns that have marked novel criticism in both the recent and not-so-recent past: gender, publicity, realism, aesthetics and passion, cults of authorial personality, the narrative construction of the future, and absorption. Flannery addresses each of these concerns through close engagement with particular texts: The Portrait of a Lady, The Tragic Muse, The Wings of the Dove, and some other less familiar texts. Although cognizant of debates that have raged around James as he is read both by 'radical' and 'traditional' critics, this book's primary focus is on the specific nuances of James’ texts and the interpretive challenges and pleasures they offer.
Denis Flannery, Vanderbilt University, USA
