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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 |
: Henry James |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 524 |
Release |
: 1986-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226391977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226391973 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art of Criticism by : Henry James
A collection of "the most important" of Henry James' Prefaces; "his studies of Hawthorne, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, de Maupassant, Turgenev, Sainte-Beuve, and Arnold; and his essays on the function of criticism and the future of the novel."--P. [4] of cover.
Author |
: Colm Tóibín |
Publisher |
: Penn State the History of the |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0271078529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780271078526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James and American Painting by : Colm Tóibín
Explores how the novels of Henry James reflect the significance of the visual culture of his society, and how essential the language and imagery of the arts, as well as friendships with artists, were to James's writing.
Author |
: Sheldon M. Novick |
Publisher |
: Random House (NY) |
Total Pages |
: 657 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780679450238 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0679450238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James by : Sheldon M. Novick
The New York Timescompared Sheldon M. Novick'sHenry James: The Young Masterto "a movie of James's life, as it unfolds, moment to moment, lending the book a powerful immediacy." Now, inHenry James: The Mature Master, Novick completes his super, revelatory two-volume account of one of the world's most gifted and least understood authors, and of a vanished world of aristocrats and commoners. Using hundreds of letters only recently made available and taking a fresh look at primary materials, Novick reveals a man utterly unlike the passive, repressed, and privileged observer painted by other biographers. Henry James is seen anew, as a passionate and engaged man of his times, driven to achieve greatness and fame, drawn to the company of other men, able to write with sensitivity about women as he shared their experiences of love and family responsibility. James, age thirty-eight as the volume begins, basking in the success of his first major novel,The Portrait of a Lady, is a literary lion in danger of being submerged by celebrity. As his finances ebb and flow he turns to the more lucrative world of the stage-with far more success than he has generally been credited with. Ironically, while struggling to excel in the theatre, James writes such prose masterpieces asThe Wings of the DoveandThe Golden Bowl. Through an astonishingly prolific life, James still finds time for profound friendships and intense rivalries.Henry James: The Mature Masterfeatures vivid new portraits of James's famous peers, including Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Louis Stevenson; his close and loving siblings Alice and William; and the many compelling young men, among them Hugh Walpole and Howard Sturgis, with whom James exchanges professions of love and among whom he thrives. We see a master converting the materials of an active life into great art. Here, too, as one century ends and another begins, is James's participation in the public events of his native America and adopted England. As the still-feudal European world is shaken by democracy and as America sees itself endangered by a wave of Jewish and Italian immigrants, a troubled James wrestles with his own racial prejudices and his desire for justice. With the coming of world war all other considerations are set aside, and James enlists in the cause of civilization, leaving his greatest final works unwritten. Hailed as a genius and a warm and charitable man-and derided by enemies as false, effeminate, and self-infatuated-Henry James emerges here as a major and complex figure, a determined and ambitious artist who was planning a new novel even on his deathbed. InHenry James: The Mature Master, he is at last seen in full; along with its predecessor volume, this book is bound to become t
Author |
: Peter Brooks |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691129541 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691129549 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James Goes to Paris by : Peter Brooks
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Author |
: Tessa Hadley |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2002-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139432917 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139432915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure by : Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes. These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society.
Author |
: Patrick O'Donnell |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2021-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438482781 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438482787 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Knowing It When You See It by : Patrick O'Donnell
Perched as he was at the beginning of literary modernism and the evolution of film as a medium, Henry James addressed a cluster of epistemological and aesthetic issues related to the visualization of reality. In Knowing It When You See It, Patrick O'Donnell compares several late novels and stories by Henry James with a series of films directed by Michael Haneké, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, and Lars Von Trier. O'Donnell argues that these issues find parallels in films made at the other end of an arc extending from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the initial years of the twenty-first. In mapping affinities between literature and film, he is not concerned with adaptation or discursivity, but rather with how the "visual" is represented in two mediums—with how seeing becomes knowledge, how framing what is seen becomes a critical part of the story that is conveyed, and how the perspective of the camera or the narrator shapes reality. Both James and these later auteurs "think" visually in ways that inter-illuminate their fictions and films, and newly bring into relief the trajectory of modernity in relation to visuality.
Author |
: Henry James |
Publisher |
: Moon Classics |
Total Pages |
: 510 |
Release |
: 2020-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 166272795X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781662727955 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Works of Henry James, Vol. 03 (of 06) by : Henry James
Picture and Text is a collection of essays by Henry James on the art of illustration, published in 1893. The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876-77 and then as a book in 1877.
Author |
: Henry James |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 64 |
Release |
: 2021-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798724585927 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Madonna of the Future by : Henry James
American author Henry James often grappled with weighty topics in his work, and the story "The Madonna of the Future" -- longer than a typical short story, but shorter than a novella -- is no exception. Framed as an anecdote related among a group of men engaged in post-dinner chitchat, the story deals with an artist whose outsize ambitions and perfectionism have frozen him in a kind of creative paralysis. It's a profoundly thought-provoking tale that prompts important questions about the role of art in the world.