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UNINA9910780243903321 |
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Autore |
Meissner Collin |
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Titolo |
Henry James and the language of experience / / Collin Meissner [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
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1-107-11510-8 |
0-511-00713-2 |
1-280-16180-9 |
0-511-11695-0 |
0-511-14977-8 |
0-511-30298-3 |
0-511-48519-0 |
0-511-05073-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Language and languages - Political aspects |
Aesthetics - Political aspects |
Consciousness in literature |
Experience in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-232) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The experience of Jamesian hermeneutics -- The experience of divestiture: toward an understanding of the self in The American -- Bondage and boundaries: Isabel Archer's failed experience -- Lambert Strether and the negativity of experience -- Recovery and revelation: the experience of self-exposure in James's autobiography. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Henry James and the Language of Experience, Collin Meissner examines the political dimension to the representation of experience as it unfolds throughout James's work. Meissner argues that, for James, experience was a private and public event, a dialectical process that registered and expressed his consciousness of the external world. Adapting recent work in hermeneutics and phenomenology, Meissner shows how James's understanding of the process of consciousness is |
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