Collin Meissner examines the political dimension to the representation of experience as it unfolds throughout James' work. For James, experience was a dialectical process that registered and expressed his consciousness of the external world. Meissner shows how James' understanding of the process of consciousness is not simply an aspect of literary form but inherently political, requiring an active engagment with the full complexity of social reality. The civic value of art resided in an interactive process in which the reader becomes aware of the aesthetic experience as immediate and engaged.
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"...an exquisitely rendered and lucid response to postmodern skepticism about the creatuve construction of human identity in Henry James's fiction." Henry James Review
"Meissner's study fruitfully applies the insights of hermeneutics and phenomenology...to reexamine the crises of interpretation that form the central dramas in James's fiction...The value of Meissner's focus on this drama of hermeneutic crisis and "epiphany" is evidenced by his cogent readings of the novels. He offers particularly valuable insights into how and why their conclusions deliberately resist conventional expectations of narrative closure." American Literature
"...Meissner navigates adeptly through the ficton,autobiographical works, and theoretical writings to posit that James's textual mission extends experience's self-liberating potential beyond fictional limits to the writer himself and to the reader." Modern Fiction Studies
"Meissner's study fruitfully applies the insights of hermeneutics and phenomenology...to reexamine the crises of interpretation that form the central dramas in James's fiction...The value of Meissner's focus on this drama of hermeneutic crisis and "epiphany" is evidenced by his cogent readings of the novels. He offers particularly valuable insights into how and why their conclusions deliberately resist conventional expectations of narrative closure." American Literature
"...Meissner navigates adeptly through the ficton,autobiographical works, and theoretical writings to posit that James's textual mission extends experience's self-liberating potential beyond fictional limits to the writer himself and to the reader." Modern Fiction Studies
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Collin Meissner examines the political dimension to the representation of experience as it unfolds throughout James's work. For James, experience was a dialectical process that registered and expressed his consciousness of the external world. Meissner shows how James's understanding of the process of consciousness is not simply an aspect of literary form but inherently political, requiring an active engagment with the full complexity of social reality. The civic value of art resided in an interactive proces in which the reader becomes aware of the aesthetic experience as immediate and engaged.
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I should say right away that my purpose in this book is not to construct an argument about hermeneutics as a general theory, but rather to give an account of James's hermeneutics in his own terms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
permeable self, cumulative view, perceptual horizon, interpreting subject, sacred fount, money culture, poisoned drink, autobiographical project Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Ambassadors, Madame de Vionnet, Isabel Archer, Lambert Strether, Henry James, Maria Gostrey, Marie de Vionnet, Sarah Pocock, Christopher Newman, Madame de Bellegarde, Art of Fiction, Ralph Touchett, Madame Merle, Claire de Cintré, Madame Dandelard, Trial of Curiosity, Little Bilham, New York, Paul Armstrong, American Scene, Gilbert Osmond, Luxembourg Gardens, Ross Posnock, The Sacred Fount, Literary Criticism New!
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I should say right away that my purpose in this book is not to construct an argument about hermeneutics as a general theory, but rather to give an account of James's hermeneutics in his own terms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
permeable self, cumulative view, perceptual horizon, interpreting subject, sacred fount, money culture, poisoned drink, autobiographical project Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Ambassadors, Madame de Vionnet, Isabel Archer, Lambert Strether, Henry James, Maria Gostrey, Marie de Vionnet, Sarah Pocock, Christopher Newman, Madame de Bellegarde, Art of Fiction, Ralph Touchett, Madame Merle, Claire de Cintré, Madame Dandelard, Trial of Curiosity, Little Bilham, New York, Paul Armstrong, American Scene, Gilbert Osmond, Luxembourg Gardens, Ross Posnock, The Sacred Fount, Literary Criticism New!
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- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James on 46 pages
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