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This review is from: Henry James: The Shorter Fiction, Reassessments (Hardcover)
Eleven Jamesian scholars offer interpretations of his shorter works. Their efforts are perhaps best introduced by direct quotes:Ian F.A. Bell on "Daisy Miller": "Daisy as reflex may join the tale's furniture for speculative mediation that organizes its historical sense, a sense designed to register the effects of history rather than its documentable forces". Geoff Ward on The Altar of the Dead": "Impediments to the spiritual journey are frequently imagined as stone, as in Mallarme's "tombeau" poems, while women and animals resembling statuary (and the Sphinx, who combines the two) are particularly common: 'Je suis belle, o mortels, comme un reve de pierre!" is intoned by Baudelaire's "La Beaute'"... These essays are of undoubted usefulness to the James specialist, and will be inflicted on generations of perspiring college students, but the curious general reader will find greater pleasure in reading the master himself, without scholarly mediation. (The numerical rating above is an ineradicable featrure of the site. This reviewer does not employ numerical ratings.) |
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Henry James: The Shorter Fiction, Reassessments by N. H. Reeve (Hardcover - June 1997)
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