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Henry James and the language of experience /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Henry James and the language of experience // Collin Meissner.
remainder title:	Henry James & the Language of Experience
Author:	Meissner, Collin,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Language and languages - Political aspects. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485190
ISBN:	9780511485190 (ebook)

Henry James and the language of experience /
Meissner, Collin,

Henry James and the language of experience /Henry James & the Language of ExperienceCollin Meissner. - 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The experience of Jamesian hermeneutics -- The experience of divestiture: toward an understanding of the self in The American -- Bondage and boundaries: Isabel Archer's failed experience -- Lambert Strether and the negativity of experience -- Recovery and revelation: the experience of self-exposure in James's autobiography.

In Henry James and the Language of Experience, Collin Meissner examines the political dimension to the representation of experience as it unfolds throughout James's work. Meissner argues that, for James, experience was a private and public event, a dialectical process that registered and expressed his consciousness of the external world. Adapting recent work in hermeneutics and phenomenology, Meissner shows how James's understanding of the process of consciousness is not simply an aspect of literary form; it is in fact inherently political, as it requires an active engagement with the full complexity of social reality. For James, the civic value of art resided in this interactive process, one in which the reader becomes aware of the aesthetic experience as immediate and engaged. This wide-ranging study combines literary theory and close readings of James's work to argue for a redefinition of the aesthetic as it operates in James's work.

ISBN: 9780511485190 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

835127
James, Henry,
1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

555713
Language and languages
--Political aspects.

LC Class. No.: PS2127.P6 / M45 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.4

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