Author: Daniel Hannah
Publisher: Routledge
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Proposing a new approach to Jamesian aesthetics, Daniel Hannah examines the complicated relationship between Henry James's impressionism and his handling of 'the public.' Hannah challenges solely phenomenological or pictorial accounts of literary impressionism, instead foregrounding James's treatment of the word 'impression' as a mediatory unit that both resists and accommodates invasive publicity. Thus even as he envisages a breakdown between public and private at the end of the nineteenth century, James registers that breakdown not only as a threat but also as an opportunity for aesthetic gain. Beginning with a reading of 'The Art of Fiction' as both a public-forming essay and an aesthetic manifesto, Hannah's study examines James's responses to painterly impressionism and to aestheticism, and offers original readings of What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove, and The American Scene that treat James's articulation of impressionism in relation to the child, the future of the novel, and shifts in the American national imaginary. Hannah's study persuasively argues that throughout his career James returns to impressionability not only as a site of immense vulnerability in an age of rapid change but also as a crucible for reshaping, challenging, and adapting to the public sphere’s shifting forms.
Henry James And The Art Of Impressions
Author: John Scholar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Henry James criticized the impressionism which was revolutionizing French painting and French fiction, and satirized the British aesthetic movement, which championed impressionist criticism. Yet time and again he used the word 'impression' to represent the most intense moments of consciousness of his characters, as well as the work of the literary artist. Henry James and the Art of Impressions argues that the literary art of the impression, as James practised it, places his work within the wider cultural history of impressionism, and means that his work stands outside that history and challenges its very terms. Henry James and the Art of Impressions�offers an unprecedentedly detailed cultural and intellectual history of the impression. It draws on philosophy, psychology, literature, critical theory, and the visual arts to study James's early art criticism, literary criticism, travel writing, prefaces, and the three great novels of his major phase, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. It argues that coherent philosophical meanings of the Jamesian impression emerge when they are comprehended as a family of related ideas about perception, imagination, and aesthetics - bound together by James's attempt to reconcile the novel's value as a mimetic form with its value as a transformative creative activity. Henry James and the Art of Impressions traces the development of the impression across a range of disciplines to show the cultural and intellectual debts James's use of the word owes them. It offers a more philosophical account of James to complement the more historicist work of recent decades.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
View: 7576
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Henry James criticized the impressionism which was revolutionizing French painting and French fiction, and satirized the British aesthetic movement, which championed impressionist criticism. Yet time and again he used the word 'impression' to represent the most intense moments of consciousness of his characters, as well as the work of the literary artist. Henry James and the Art of Impressions argues that the literary art of the impression, as James practised it, places his work within the wider cultural history of impressionism, and means that his work stands outside that history and challenges its very terms. Henry James and the Art of Impressions�offers an unprecedentedly detailed cultural and intellectual history of the impression. It draws on philosophy, psychology, literature, critical theory, and the visual arts to study James's early art criticism, literary criticism, travel writing, prefaces, and the three great novels of his major phase, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. It argues that coherent philosophical meanings of the Jamesian impression emerge when they are comprehended as a family of related ideas about perception, imagination, and aesthetics - bound together by James's attempt to reconcile the novel's value as a mimetic form with its value as a transformative creative activity. Henry James and the Art of Impressions traces the development of the impression across a range of disciplines to show the cultural and intellectual debts James's use of the word owes them. It offers a more philosophical account of James to complement the more historicist work of recent decades.
Index To Theses With Abstracts Accepted For Higher Degrees By The Universities Of Great Britain And Ireland And The Council For National Academic Awards
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Publisher:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Social History Of Art Naturalism Impressionism The Film Age
Author: Arnold Hauser
Publisher:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages :
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American Impressionism And Realism
Author: Nicolai Cikovsky
Publisher:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 195
View: 555
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49 American impressionist and realist paintings and works on paper from the Margaret and Raymond Horowitz collection were presented, including works by William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, George Bellows, Maurice Prendergast, and William Glackens. This was the first time the collection had been on exhibition since it was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973.
Publisher:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 195
View: 555
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49 American impressionist and realist paintings and works on paper from the Margaret and Raymond Horowitz collection were presented, including works by William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, George Bellows, Maurice Prendergast, and William Glackens. This was the first time the collection had been on exhibition since it was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973.
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Henry James And The Life Of The Imagination
Author: Donald Emerson
Publisher:
Category : Imagination in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Publisher:
Category : Imagination in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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The Impressionists And The Salon 1874 1886 Honoring The Centennial Of The First Impressionist Exhibition
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Publisher:
Category : Art, French
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Publisher:
Category : Art, French
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Impressionism And Post Impressionism In The Art Institute Of Chicago
Author: Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Art Institute of Chicago owns one of America's finest collections of Impressionist art, and its greatest masterpiecees are now brought together in one volume.
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Art Institute of Chicago owns one of America's finest collections of Impressionist art, and its greatest masterpiecees are now brought together in one volume.
The Impressionists
Author: Gabriele Crepaldi
Publisher:
Category : Impressionism (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 479
View: 3147
Book Description:
This title on the Impressionists, features the work of 29 artists, including not only the most well-known French painters, but also English, American and Italian artists. It features the work of the precursors of the movement, such as Edouard Manet and Delacroix, and its most famous representatives like Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir. In addition, the eccentric and somewhat peripheral artists of the movement such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, are featured, as well as lesser-known Impressionists such as James Whistler and Mary Cassatt.
Publisher:
Category : Impressionism (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 479
View: 3147
Book Description:
This title on the Impressionists, features the work of 29 artists, including not only the most well-known French painters, but also English, American and Italian artists. It features the work of the precursors of the movement, such as Edouard Manet and Delacroix, and its most famous representatives like Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir. In addition, the eccentric and somewhat peripheral artists of the movement such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, are featured, as well as lesser-known Impressionists such as James Whistler and Mary Cassatt.