Henry James And The Culture Of Publicity
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Author |
: Richard Salmon |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 1997-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 052156249X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521562492 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James and the Culture of Publicity by : Richard Salmon
This book examines the relationship between the writings of Henry James and the historical formation of mass culture. Throughout his career, James was concerned with such characteristically modern cultural forms as advertising, biography and the New Journalism, forms which together constituted the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. Richard Salmon's study situates James's fiction and criticism within the context of the contemporary debates surrounding these rival discursive practices. He explores both the nature of James's contribution to the critique of mass culture and the extent of his immersion within it. James's persistent and ambivalent negotiation of the boundaries between private and public experience ranged from a defence of the artist's right to privacy, to his own counter-practice of publicity.
Author |
: Michele Mendelssohn |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2014-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748697540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748697543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture by : Michele Mendelssohn
This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.
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Total Pages |
: 498 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:940344948 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James and the Culture of Publicity by :
Author |
: John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822321475 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822321477 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other Henry James by : John Carlos Rowe
Rowe uses recent work on the oppressive treatment of gays, women and children in his analysis of Henry James, arguing that James mounts a critique of bourgeois values and lack of historical consciousness.
Author |
: Miranda El-Rayess |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2014-06-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107039056 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107039053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James and the Culture of Consumption by : Miranda El-Rayess
This book focuses on Henry James's engagement with the fast-developing consumer culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author |
: Sigi Jottkandt |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 197 |
Release |
: 2012-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780791482759 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0791482758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Acting Beautifully by : Sigi Jottkandt
What is the matter with the women in Henry James? In The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and his short story "The Altar of the Dead," one woman returns to a monster of a husband, another dies rather than confront the truth of her lover's engagement, while yet another stakes her all on having a candle lit for a dead lover, only to promptly reject it. Exploring these strange choices, Sigi Jöttkandt argues that the singularity of these acts lies in their ethical nature, and that the ethical principle involved cannot be divorced from the question of aesthetics. She combines close readings of James with suggestive tours through Kantian aesthetics and set theory to uncover the aesthetic underpinning of the Lacanian ethical act, which has been largely overlooked in the current drive to discover a Cartesian origin for the subject as the subject of science.
Author |
: Miranda El-Rayess |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2014-06-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107729513 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107729513 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James and the Culture of Consumption by : Miranda El-Rayess
This book explores Henry James's imaginative engagements with the burgeoning consumer culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on his hitherto neglected fascination with shops and the shopping experience. Examining a wide range of the author's fiction and non-fiction in the context of developments such as the rise of the department store, the growing public presence of women shoppers and shop workers, and the increasing sophistication of commodity display and advertising, the book argues that consumer desire constitutes an integral part of James's understanding of modern subjectivity. It also demonstrates that the structures and strategies of commodity culture are deeply embedded in his style, his aesthetic and his conception of authorship. The study offers new readings of familiar and less familiar texts, and includes a wealth of original historical documentation that has been gleaned from contemporary newspapers, periodicals, advertising manuals, sales catalogues and guidebooks.
Author |
: Ian F. A. Bell |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: 038920515X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780389205159 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James by : Ian F. A. Bell
This collection of new essays relates James's work to the political and social issues of his day, making this outstanding literary figure accessible to a broader reading public. Contributors include Richard Godden and Charles Swann, Millicent Bell and Deborah Phillips.
Author |
: Daniel Hannah |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2016-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317122562 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317122569 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public by : Daniel Hannah
Proposing a new approach to Jamesian aesthetics, Daniel Hannah examines the complicated relationship between Henry James's impressionism and his handling of 'the public.' Hannah challenges solely phenomenological or pictorial accounts of literary impressionism, instead foregrounding James's treatment of the word 'impression' as a mediatory unit that both resists and accommodates invasive publicity. Thus even as he envisages a breakdown between public and private at the end of the nineteenth century, James registers that breakdown not only as a threat but also as an opportunity for aesthetic gain. Beginning with a reading of 'The Art of Fiction' as both a public-forming essay and an aesthetic manifesto, Hannah's study examines James's responses to painterly impressionism and to aestheticism, and offers original readings of What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove, and The American Scene that treat James's articulation of impressionism in relation to the child, the future of the novel, and shifts in the American national imaginary. Hannah's study persuasively argues that throughout his career James returns to impressionability not only as a site of immense vulnerability in an age of rapid change but also as a crucible for reshaping, challenging, and adapting to the public sphere’s shifting forms.
Author |
: James F. English |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 2008-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674018842 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674018846 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Economy of Prestige by : James F. English
This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and their consequences for society and culture at large--have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-ranging overview of this phenomenon, James F. English documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within what he describes as an economy of cultural prestige. Observing that cultural prizes in their modern form originate at the turn of the twentieth century with the institutional convergence of art and competitive spectator sports, English argues that they have in recent decades undergone an important shift--a more genuine and far-reaching globalization than what has occurred in the economy of material goods. Focusing on the cultural prize in its contemporary form, his book addresses itself broadly to the economic dimensions of culture, to the rules or logic of exchange in the market for what has come to be called "cultural capital." In the wild proliferation of prizes, English finds a key to transformations in the cultural field as a whole. And in the specific workings of prizes, their elaborate mechanics of nomination and election, presentation and acceptance, sponsorship, publicity, and scandal, he uncovers evidence of the new arrangements and relationships that have refigured that field.