Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 607 g
The New York Edition
Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 607 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-812871-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
At the height of his powers Henry James turned from the creation of new fiction to the `writing over' of his past works for the definitive New York Edition of his novels and tales. His anxious scrutiny of what he had written across his long career - up to thirty-six years before - led sometimes to rejection, but more often to a renewed imaginative intimacy with the creations of his old self through the intensive revision of his texts. In the first major study of the
subject Philip Horne examines the revision of particular works, shedding new light on interpretative controversies (as with The Portrait of a Lady and Daisy Miller). He attends to questions of principle raised by the paradoxical processes of the reviser. Using much new material, this book tells the
painful but impressive story of James's lifelong struggle for perfection, and illuminates his genius as a framer of sentences and a master of dramatic nuance. James's engagement with revision is connected with every other aspect of his achievement; it displays vividly and accurately his close experience of the life of writing.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Notes on texts and abbreviations; The New York Edition; Rights and wrongs of revision; Confidence in revision; Roderick Hudson and the beginnings of genius; The American: Henry James at work; Perspectives in The Portrait of a Lady; Revised judgements of Daisy Miller; The values of The Aspern Papers; A decent perfection: the lesson of the master; Last words; Appendix: Chronology: James during the period of the New York Edition; Bibliography; Index
