Henry James and the Art of Impressions

Name: Henry James and the Art of Impressions
Brand: Oxford University Press(UK)
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Henry James criticized the impressionism that was revolutionizing French painting and fiction. He satirized the British aesthetic movement whose keystone was impressionist criticism. So why, time and again in important parts of his literary work, did James use the word 'impression'? Henry James and the Art of Impressions argues that James tried to wrest the impression from the impressionists and to recast it in his own art of the novel. Interdisciplinary in its range, philosophical and literary in its focus, the book shows the place of James's work within the wider culturalhistory of impressionism. It draws on painting, philosophy, psychology, literature, and critical theory to examine James's art criticism, early literary criticism, travel writing, reflections on his own fiction, and the three great novels of his major phase, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. It shows how the language of impressions enables James to represent the most intense moments of consciousness of his characters. It argues that the Jamesian impression is best understood as a family of related ideas bound together by James's attempt to reconcile the novel'svalue as a mimetic form with its value as a transformative creative activity.

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Number of Pages:: 310
Release Date:: 2020-07-22
Publication Date:: 2020-07-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0198853513
ISBN13:: 9780198853510
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 631 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 21 cm

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