| Description |
1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Text -- Introduction: The Promise of Art -- The Promise of the Promise -- The Continuity of Things -- Essentially Traceable -- Where Can Duty Lie? -- Chapter 1 Promising Others: The Portrait of a Lady -- Choosing One's Fate -- Our Own Point of View -- What Will She Do? -- The Requirements of Their Imagination -- She Was Free -- Chapter 2 Promising for Others: The Turn of the Screw -- To Say for Him What He Couldn't Say -- Something That Has Already Happened -- My Own Hour -- The Quiet Day |
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The Third Person -- Chapter 3 Promising Oneself: The Ambassadors -- A Kind of Shame -- A Private Pledge -- Remembrance of Things Present -- The Real Lapse of Time -- The Other Side -- Chapter 4 Promising to Love: The Wings of the Dove -- A Certain Direction of the Will -- The Spacing of Any Promise -- In Love with Her Memory -- Eyes of Other Days -- Proofs -- Chapter 5 Promising to Lie: The Golden Bowl -- Lie for Lie -- Kinship of Expression -- Living with Eternity -- The Bowl without the Crack -- We Are Not at Our Own Disposal -- Chapter 6 Promising the Future: ""The Beast in the Jungle |
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Sphinxes and Sybils -- Too Late -- Had Been to Come -- Conclusion: Promising the Past: ""The Figure in the Carpet -- A Positive Pledge -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Exploring the relationship between Henry James's ethical vision and his densely metaphorical style, his experiments with narrative time, and his radical reimagining of perspective, this book argues that the moral issues raised by a work of fiction are as much a product of its form as of its content |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Literary style
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| SUBJECT |
James, Henry, 1843-1916. fast (OCoLC)fst00028686 |
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Ethics in literature.
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American literature.
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Ethics in literature.
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Literary style.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009419706 |
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9781009419703 |
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