American memory in Henry James : void and value / / William Righter ; edited by Rosemary Righter
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| Autore: |
Righter William
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| Titolo: |
American memory in Henry James : void and value / / William Righter ; edited by Rosemary Righter
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 813/.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | National characteristics, American, in literature |
| Literature and history - United States | |
| History in literature | |
| Memory in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States In literature |
| Altri autori: |
RighterRosemary
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| Note generali: | First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. America deconstructed -- pt. 2. The note of Europe -- pt. 3. Amerigo in an American nowhere -- pt. 4. A dark fable of love and power -- pt. 5. Form and contingency. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | American Memory in Henry James is about the cultural, historical and moral dislocations at the heart of Henry James' explorations of American identity - between power and love; modernity and history; indeterminate social forms and enduring personal values. The text covers the power, and the limits, of the language of morality and interpretive imagination as James grapples with what America and Europe have in common; and also with what, because their contexts and sense of history are so profoundly different, they cannot have in common. Righter's great theme is the tensions that impelled James ultimately to stretch the novel, his beloved 'prodigious form', almost to breaking point, in search of an ultimately elusive synthesis. The American Scene - his account of an America, revisited after long absence, that was reinventing itself right down to the touchstones of its identity - is its entry point; The Golden Bowl is its primary testing ground. The questions raised transcend the historical moment and the specifically Jamesian sense of dislocation, to go to the heart of modern identity, and the nature of literary endeavour. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American memory in Henry James |
| ISBN: | 1-351-95932-8 |
| 1-315-26286-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910971779103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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