Technologies of vision in Henry James's 'What Maisie Knew.'(The Turn-of-the-Century American Novel)(Critical Essay)
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Henry James's 1897 'What Maisie Knew' marked a key moment in the question of representation as a means to define modernity, primarily through spectacular forms of display and performance such as the magic lantern show. Modernity expanded perception at the cost of sublimating the embodied self, introducing violence into the cognitive realm through technological fantasy.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2001
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Homo-formalism: analogy in 'The Sacred Fount.'(The Turn-of-the-Century American Novel)(Critical Essay)
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Henry James's 1901 novel 'The Sacred Fount' suggests homosexuality can be a formal device to explore gender symmetry, where physical and behavioral relations between two men can illustrate the problem of self-relation. Analogy in this book comprehended identity and desire in the way homosexual symmetry represented analogy.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2001
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"Out of the medium in which books breathe": the contours of formalism and 'The Golden Bowl.'(The Turn-of-the-Century American Novel)(Critical Essay)
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Henry James's novel 'The Golden Bowl' can be seen as a melodramatic abstraction in several ways. James replaced his earlier literal descriptions with purely hypothetical images, used basic shapes such as the circle and pair to create plot, and treated the world as an abstract arrangement rather than a representation.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2001
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