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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817274003321

Autore

Miller J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), <1928-2021.>

Titolo

Literature As Conduct [[electronic resource] ] : Speech Acts in Henry James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-8232-3539-4

0-8232-4812-7

0-8232-2539-9

1-4237-9650-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Disciplina

813/.4

Soggetti

Conduct of life in literature

James, Henry, -- 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation

Oral communication in literature

Speech acts (Linguistics)

Speech in literature

American Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Primary Text and Abbrevations""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: History, Narrative, Responsibility: ""The Aspern Papers""""; ""Chapter 2: The Story of a Kiss: Isabelà‚€?s Decisions in The Portrait of a Lady""; ""Chapter 3: Unworked and Unavowable: Community in The Awkward Age""; ""Chapter 4: Lying against Death: The Wings of the Dove""; ""Chapter 5: ""Conscious Perjury"": Declarations of Ignorance in The Golden Bowl""; ""Chapter 6: The ""Quasi-Turn-of-Screw Effect,"" or How to Raise a Ghost with Words: The Sense of the Past""; ""Notes""

""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The work of a master critic, this book draws on speech act theory, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in Henry



James's fiction. The author shows that three modes of speech act occur in James's novels and the action of each work is brought about by its own idiosyncratic repertoire.