James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels - Couverture rigide

Brenkman, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0226849430 ISBN 13 : 9780226849430

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2026

Synopsis

"Henry James's last completed novels-The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl-are among the greatest and most demanding achievements of modern fiction. The stories they tell are perverse: Characters are compelling even at their most cruel, their actions often calculating and loving at the same time. The novels draw on deep-seated myths but end with an unsettling lack of finality. And their dense, involuted language tracks the movements of consciousness with uncompromising artistry-the ultimate flowering of the Late James style. In this work of experimental criticism, John Brenkman is concerned with minimalism in two senses. First, with James's own minimalism-his intense scrutiny of couples and their erotic energies to the exclusion of so much else. And second, with a kind of minimalization in literary critical reading, whereby Brenkman cuts through James's amplifications to find the essence that churns beneath the intricate prose of the late novels. Showing how James evokes not only protagonists' subjectivity but more importantly what only exists in-between-that is, between lovers, between spouses, between rivals-Brenkman reveals James's philosophy of marriage and of the couple form itself"-- Provided by publisher.

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À propos de l'auteur

John Brenkman is distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center and director of the US-Europe Seminar at Baruch College. He is the author of three books, most recently, The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought since September 11.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226849430
• ISBN 13: 9780226849430
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
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