Enacting History in Henry James: Narrative, Power, and Ethics
Gert Buelens (ed.)
Cambridge University Press (1997)
| Abstract | The Jamesian mode of writing, it has been claimed, actively works against an understanding of the way truth, history and power circulate in his texts. In this collection of essays, leading scholars of James analyse the strategies James used to address these crucial issues. Enacting History in Henry James claims that, because the type of knowledge available in James's fiction is never of a cognitive kind, the reader can never know 'truth' in any verifiable sense. James's writing instead promises an experiential type of knowledge, one that is attained by participating in the power games and moral dramas that unfold within the text. This collection argues that reading James ultimately requires not just an emotional responsiveness, but also an ethical assumption of responsibility for the act of reading. By placing James's work in a fresh theoretical context, this book throws new light on this most enigmatic of writers. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Literature and history History Narration (Rhetoric History Narration (Rhetoric History Power (Social sciences) in literature Reader-response criticism Ethics in literature Fiction Technique | |||||||||
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| Call number | PS2127.H5.B84 1997 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0521121450 9780521121453 | |||||||||
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