Henry James And The Media Arts Of Modernity
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Author |
: June Hee Chung |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 411 |
Release |
: 2019-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429537417 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429537417 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity by : June Hee Chung
Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism turns to the author’s late fiction, letters, and essays to investigate his contribution to the development of an American cosmopolitan culture, both in popular and high art. The book contextualizes James’s writing within a broader cultural and social history to uncover relationships among increasingly sensory-focused media technologies, mass-consumer practices, and developments in literary style when they spread to Europe at the inception of the era of big business. Combining cultural studies with neoclassical Marxism and postcolonial theory, the study addresses a gap in scholarship concerning the rise of literary modernism as a cosmopolitan phenomenon. Although scholars have traditionally acknowledged the international character of artists’ participation in this movement, when analyzing the contributions of American expatriate writers in Europe, they generally assume an unequal degree of reciprocity in transatlantic cultural exchange with European artists being more influential than American ones. This book argues that James identifies a cultural form of American imperialism that emerged out of a commercialized version of cosmopolitanism. Yet the author appropriates the arts of modernity when he realizes that art generated with the mechanized principles of mass-production spurred a diverse range of aesthetic responses to other early-twentieth century technological and organizational innovations.
Author |
: Viola H. Winner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 0608154970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780608154978 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James and the Visual Arts by : Viola H. Winner
Author |
: Michael Anesko |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2022-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496231628 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496231627 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James Framed by : Michael Anesko
Henry James Framed is a cultural history of Henry James as a work of art. Throughout his life, James demonstrated an abiding interest in—some would say an obsession with—the visual arts. In his most influential testaments about the art of fiction, James frequently invoked a deeply felt analogy between imaginative writing and painting. At a time when having a photographic carte de visite was an expected social commonplace, James detested the necessity of replenishing his supply or of distributing his autographed image to well-wishing friends and imploring readers. Yet for a man who set the highest premium on personal privacy, James seems to have had few reservations about serving as a model for artists in other media and sat for his portrait a remarkable number of twenty-four times. Surprisingly few James scholars have brought into primary focus those occasions when the author was not writing about art but instead became art himself, through the creative expression of another’s talent. To better understand the twenty-four occasions he sat for others to represent him, Michael Anesko reconstructs the specific contexts for these works’ coming into being, assesses James’s relationships with his artists and patrons, documents his judgments concerning the objects produced, and, insofar as possible, traces the later provenance of each of them. James’s long-established intimacy with the studio world deepened his understanding of the complex relationship between the artist and his sitter. James insisted above all that a portrait was a revelation of two realities: the man whom it was the artist’s conscious effort to reveal and the artist, or interpreter, expressed in the very quality and temper of that effort. The product offered a double vision—the strongest dose of life that art could give, and the strongest dose of art that life could give.
Author |
: John H. Pearson |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 2010-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271038674 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271038675 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Prefaces of Henry James by : John H. Pearson
Author |
: Graham Wolfe |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2019-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000124361 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000124363 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theatre-Fiction in Britain from Henry James to Doris Lessing by : Graham Wolfe
This volume posits and explores an intermedial genre called theatre-fiction, understood in its broadest sense as referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatre. Though theatre has made star appearances in dozens of literary fictions, including many by modern history’s most influential authors, no full-length study has dedicated itself specifically to theatre-fiction—in fact there has not even been a recognized name for the phenomenon. Focusing on Britain, where most of the world’s theatre-novels have been produced, and commencing in the late-nineteenth century, when theatre increasingly took on major roles in novels, Theatre-Fiction in Britain argues for the benefits of considering these works in relation to each other, to a history of development, and to the theatre of their time. New modes of intermedial analysis are modelled through close studies of Henry James, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, J. B. Priestley, Ngaio Marsh, Angela Carter, and Doris Lessing, all of whom were deeply involved in the theatre-world as playwrights, directors, reviewers, and theorists. Drawing as much on theatre scholarship as on literary theory, Theatre-Fiction in Britain presents theatre-fiction as one of the past century’s most vital means of exploring, reconsidering, and bringing forth theatre’s potentials.
Author |
: Viola Hopkins Winner |
Publisher |
: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4380092 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James and the Visual Arts by : Viola Hopkins Winner
Author |
: Edwin T. Bowden |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 117 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:79167398 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Themes of Henry James by : Edwin T. Bowden
Author |
: Michael Gardiner |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2019-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351757461 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351757466 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The British Stake In Japanese Modernity by : Michael Gardiner
This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some well-known and some less-known Japanese texts. From the mid-nineteenth century, and particularly as hastened by the spectre of China in the First Opium War, Japan’s modernity was bound up with a convergence with British Newtonian cosmology, something underscored by the British presence in Meiji Japan and the British education of key Meiji state-makers. Moreover the thinking behind Britain’s own unification in the long eighteenth century, particularly the Scottish Enlightenment, is echoed strikingly faithfully in the 1860s-70s work of Fukuzawa Yukichi, Nakamura Masanao, and other writers in the ‘Japanese Enlightenment’. However, from around the end of the Meiji era, we can see a concerted and pointed response to this British universalism, its historiography, its basis in the sovereign individual subject, and its spatial mapping of the world. Elements of this response can be read in texts including Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro, Watsuji Tetsurō’s Fūdo (Climate and Culture), Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s In’ei Raisan (In Praise of Shadows), Kawabata Yasunari’s Yukiguni (Snow Country), and various work of the mid-period Kyoto School. Rarely understood in terms of its British specificity, this response should have something to say to modernist studies more generally, since it aimed at a pluralism and de-universalisation that was difficult for mainstream British modernism itself. Indeed the strength of this de-universalisation may be precisely why these ‘native’ Japanese modernist tendencies have not much been accepted as modernism within the Anglophone academy, despite this field’s apparent widening of its ground in the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Mark Goble |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 391 |
Release |
: 2010-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231518406 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231518404 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beautiful Circuits by : Mark Goble
Considering texts by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Agee, and William Carlos Williams, alongside film, painting, music, and popular culture, Mark Goble explores the development of American modernism as it was shaped by its response to technology and an attempt to change how literature itself could communicate. Goble's original readings reinterpret the aesthetics of modernism in the early twentieth century, when new modes of communication made the experience of technology an occasion for profound experimentation and reflection. He follows the assimilation of such "old" media technologies as the telegraph, telephone, and phonograph and their role in inspiring fantasies of connection, which informed a commitment to the materiality of artistic mediums. Describing how relationships made possible by technology became more powerfully experienced with technology, Goble explores a modernist fetish for media that shows no signs of abating. The "mediated life" puts technology into communication with a series of shifts in how Americans conceive the mechanics and meanings of their connections to one another, and therefore to the world and to their own modernity.
Author |
: Eric Haralson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2003-03-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139436113 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139436112 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James and Queer Modernity by : Eric Haralson
In Henry James and Queer Modernity, first published in 2003, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. Haralson places emphasis on American masculinity as portrayed in fiction between 1875 and 1935, but the book also treats events in England, such as the Oscar Wilde trials, that had a major effect on American literature. He traces James's engagement with sexual politics from his first novels of the 1870s to his 'major phase' at the turn of the century. The second section of this study measures James's extraordinary impact on Cather's representation of 'queer' characters, Stein's theories of writing and authorship as a mode of resistance to modern sexual regulation, and Hemingway's very self-constitution as a manly American author.