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Author : Kevin Ohi
Release : 2011
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 112/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Henry James and the Queerness of Style by : Kevin Ohi
Download or read book Henry James and the Queerness of Style written by Kevin Ohi. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true meaning of being fashionably late in Henry James's late works.
Author : Mark Fenster
Release : 2011
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 93X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Henry James and the Queerness of Style by : Mark Fenster
Download or read book Henry James and the Queerness of Style written by Mark Fenster. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true meaning of being fashionably late in Henry James’s late works.
Author : Michael Gorra
Release : 2012-08-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 285/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by : Michael Gorra
Download or read book Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece written by Michael Gorra. This book was released on 2012-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) One of the Best Books of 2012: The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Boston Phoenix A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel. Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra, an eminent literary critic, shows how this novel—the scandalous story of the expatriate American heiress Isabel Archer—came to be written in the first place. Traveling to Florence, Rome, Paris, and England, Gorra sheds new light on James’s family, the European literary circles—George Eliot, Flaubert, Turgenev—in which James made his name, and the psychological forces that enabled him to create this most memorable of female protagonists. Appealing to readers of Menand’s The Metaphysical Club and McCullough’s The Greater Journey, Portrait of a Novel provides a brilliant account of the greatest American novel of expatriate life ever written. It becomes a piercing detective story on its own.
Author : Michael Anesko
Release : 2018-09-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 386/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Henry James and Queer Filiation by : Michael Anesko
Download or read book Henry James and Queer Filiation written by Michael Anesko. This book was released on 2018-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. It reconstructs a surprisingly open network of queer filiation in which Henry James occupied a central place. The lives of its satellite figures — most now forgotten or unknown — offer even more suggestive evidence of some of the countervailing forms of social practice that could survive even in that hostile era. If these men enjoyed such exemption largely because of the prerogatives of class privilege, their relative freedom was nevertheless a visible rebuke to the reductive stereotypes of homosexuality that circulated and were reinforced in the culture of the period. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of Henry James and queer studies, readers of late Victorian and modern literature, and those interested in the history and social construction of gender roles.
Author : Richie Hofmann
Release : 2015-10-12
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 309/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Second Empire by : Richie Hofmann
Download or read book Second Empire written by Richie Hofmann. This book was released on 2015-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The delicate arc of these poems intimates—rather than tells—a love story: celebration, fear of loss, storm, abandonment, an opening forth. Richie Hofmann disciplines his natural elegance into the sterner recognitions that matter: 'I am a little white omnivore,' the speaker of Second Empire discovers. Mastering directness and indirection, Hofmann's poems break through their own beauty."—Rosanna Warren This debut's spare, delicate poems explore ways we experience the afterlife of beauty while ornately examining lust, loss, and identity. Drawing upon traditions of amorous sonnets, these love-elegies desire an artistic and sexual connection to others—other times, other places—in order to understand aesthetic pleasures the speaker craves. Distant and formal, the poems feel both ancient and contemporary. Antique Book The sky was crazed with swallows. We walked in the frozen grass of your new city, I was gauzed with sleep. Trees shook down their gaudy nests. The ceramic pots were caparisoned with snow. I was jealous of the river, how the light broke it, of the skein of windows where we saw ourselves. Where we walked, the ice cracked like an antique book, opening and closing. The leaves beneath it were the marbled pages. Richie Hofmann is the winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University MFA program, he is currently a Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University.
