Henry James and the Philosophical Novel breaks fresh ground by examining James's unique position as a philosophical novelist, closely associated with the climate of ideas generated by his brother William. It considers storytelling as a mode of philosophical enquiry, showing how a range of distinguished thinkers have relied on fictional narrative as a technique for formulating and clarifying their ideas; and investigates (with close reference to his novels) the affiliations between James's practice as a novelist and contemporary epistemological, moral, and linguistic concerns.
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"Merle A. Williams's book is a welcome addition to the growing library on James and philosophy." Jonathan Levin, The Henry James Review
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Henry James and the Philosophical Novel examines James's unique position as a philosophical novelist. The book offers a detailed consideration of story-telling as a mode of philosophical enquiry, showing how a range of distinguished thinkers have relied on fictional narrative as a vital technique for formulating and clarifying their ideas.
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What Maisie Knew, with its unique blend of comedy, pathos and anguish, is a novel that is deeply concerned with ways of seeing the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pragmatistic thought, philosophical novelist, intentional analysis, phenomenological reduction, quod vis, golden bowl, subjective thinking, embodied consciousness, natural attitude Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Henry James, The Ambassadors, Maisie Knew, The Spoils of Poynton, Mme de Vionnet, Sir Claude, Lancaster Gate, Aunt Maud, William James, Phenomenology of Perception, Lord Mark, New York, Adam Verver, Kate Croy, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, New England, The Art of the Novel, The Expense of Vision, Milly Theale, Chirk Street, Edmund Husserl, Fleda Vetch, Regent's Park, Sir Luke, Lambert Strether New!
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What Maisie Knew, with its unique blend of comedy, pathos and anguish, is a novel that is deeply concerned with ways of seeing the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pragmatistic thought, philosophical novelist, intentional analysis, phenomenological reduction, quod vis, golden bowl, subjective thinking, embodied consciousness, natural attitude Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Henry James, The Ambassadors, Maisie Knew, The Spoils of Poynton, Mme de Vionnet, Sir Claude, Lancaster Gate, Aunt Maud, William James, Phenomenology of Perception, Lord Mark, New York, Adam Verver, Kate Croy, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, New England, The Art of the Novel, The Expense of Vision, Milly Theale, Chirk Street, Edmund Husserl, Fleda Vetch, Regent's Park, Sir Luke, Lambert Strether New!
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- The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 43 pages
- What Maisie Knew (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 31 pages
- The Spoils of Poynton (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 25 pages
- The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 24 pages
- The Art of the Novel, by Henry James on 11 pages
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- The Dangers of Interpretation: Art and Artists in Henry James and Thomas Mann (Origins of Modernism) by Ilona Treitel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Jill M. Kress in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Henry James and the Father Question (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Andrew Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Henry James' Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Beverly Haviland in Back Matter
- Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics (Reflective Bioethics) by Hilde Lindemann Nelson on page 110
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