Essays Tagged: "Henry James"
Shakespeare - real or not?
as to the authorship of William Shakespeare. These doubts are as old as his plays. American author, Henry James once said, "I am haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Realists/Naturalists in Literature: Cather, Crane, Twain, and James
true in the writings of many American writers such as Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, and Henry James. Throughout each of their works, these four points exposed to us by Zola, are incessantl ... thoughts of the narrator as though they were truly listening to an old man ramble on about nothing.Henry James used his talent as a writer to bring out the psyche of his characters. His short story, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain
This is a paraphrase paper of a scene in Daisy Miller by Henry James. The paper not only paraphrases the scene, but it also delves deep into the thoughts of the characters and the author.
--Fluctuations--Daisy Miller, Henry JamesChapter 3, pg.88-90· Note: I will not make a clearly identifiable distinction betw ... ngle, and overly conspicuous buttonholes.Winterbourne however seems to be resentful of the Italian. Henry James, often uses the eye-striking buttonhole mentioned previously as a sign of a man's improp ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Properly Acknowledged
rished it and inspired many other writers of that time. 'His influence can be found in the works of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and Robert Frost.' ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
'The Beast in the Jungle' by Henry James
'In the case of Henry James there should not be much dispute about the exactness and completeness of the representat ... e.' These are the remarks of Stuart P. Sherman from his article entitled 'The Aesthetic Idealism of Henry James,' from The Nation, p. 397, April 5, 1917. Now, some seventy-two years later critical rea ... after his brother William married. Richard Hall explains that it wasn't until the early 1900s that Henry was able to deal with the inferiority complex that he felt in regard to his older brother (Hal ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthrone. This is a report that descrbes all the symbolism throughout the book.
bolism is very important throughout the Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. According to Henry James, the famous American novelist, he believes the symbolism is overdone. Others think the s ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Youth by Henry James and The Turn of the Screw by Joseph Conrad- Vanderbilt
the core of what the rest of life is based around and is, for many, the best part life. In Youth by Henry James and The Turn of the Screw by Joseph Conrad, there are two main characters in the prime o ... fact that nothing is concrete in "The Turn of the Screw" makes it even more uncomfortable to read. Henry James uses fear of the unknown to charge up this novella by using the governess as the narrato ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Henry James' "What Maisie Knew".
o play..." This is what Millicent Bell thinks about the role of the narrator in What Maisie Knew by Henry James.In this paper, I will try to show the importance of the way the story is narrated for th ... the narrator uses the personal pronoun "I". Moreover, we know from the preface that the real author Henry James found the inspiration for his work in an actual incident . Reading the book, we get the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
A review of "the story of Daisy Mille"r By Henry James.
Daisy Miller: A StudyIn the story Daisy Miller by Henry James, the character Daisy Miller is portrayed as being a typical American flirt. In Europe th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Book analysis of Washington Square; Jane Austen.
Henry James, in Washington Square, provides a direct challenge to our preconceived notions of the no ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Major Themes and Symbols in "The Scarlet Letter".
olism is a very important device in the Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. According to Henry James, the famous American novelist, he believes the symbolism is overdone in the novel, thoug ... rica having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it" (Hawthorne by Henry James- chapter 5). Throughout the book, Hawthorne used various kinds of symbolism. The symbols ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is a summary of Daisy Miller and it's characters
Henry James describes the character Winterbourne in his story Daisy Miller: A Study by saying "He wa ... true affections elsewhere. We've all known the type, nice and polite and yet above you in some way.Henry James portrays all of the human aspects we have come to know as common. We can see a little of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The development of the novel in the 20th century
to 1914Over the eighteen eighties there was a split in fiction. The first indication towards it was Henry James' essay "The Art of Fiction" (1884), which referred to the novelist's calling as a "Sacre ... d the Victorian novel into the categories of fiction we know today. The key name in the eighties is Henry James, who strove to give the novel the aesthetic intensity of poetry or painting. The two dom ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Louisa May Alcott
passant; Anton Chekhov; George Eliot; Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, the pioneers of realism; Henry James; and Louisa May Alcott. These realists are some of the most famous authors of the world. ... ot. But she also was able to meet with her father's friends from time to time. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne had intellectual discussions at her house regularly. Al ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
May Bartram's behavioral change in Henry James's "The Beast in the Jungle"
Henry James's short story "The Beast in the Jungle"illustrates the changeable behavior of May Bartra ... time is comingand that John is the only thing that, if she could, wouldcontinue to live for.In all, Henry James's short story "The Beast in theJungle" demonstrates May Bartram's transforming behavior. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Transcending Wuthering Heights
is challenged by the transgressive power of the genres of fantasy and horror, gratifying both what Henry James has called 'the taste of emotions of recognition' and that 'for emotions of surprise.' S ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Cult of the Master The later Henry James was a master of technique. But how good a novelist was he?
Cult of the MasterThe later Henry James was a master of technique. But how good a novelist was he?Henry James: Novels 1896-1899L ... chnique. But how good a novelist was he?Henry James: Novels 1896-1899Library of America he story of Henry James's fruitless flirtation with the theater has been so often told that it has become folklo ... He was never seriously involved in the theater again.Few writers have been as reliably amnestied as Henry James. From the 1940s to the 1970s he was steadily enshrined as both the greatest American nov ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
What Maisie Knew - Portrait of a Child
- Portrait of a ChildAfter his disastrous shot at playwriting, which occupied him for a few years, Henry James finally returned to what he knew best: writing novels. What Maisie Knew (1897) is perhap ... g. James is best, or at least most touching, when he allows himself to be moved by his characters.A Henry James ending, however, is often unforgivable. If he doesn't smack you in the face with a bruta ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Let Freedom Ring, and essay on Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
lse, they tend to hold onto this power and not grant freedom. This isthe case with the governess in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. As the governess, she hascontrol over her student Miles and she ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
IRP Essay: Infidelity and Family Breakups
ndful of Dust shows the depraved mind in women during this period and Maisie Farange's parents from Henry James's What Maisie Knew show the evolution through their depraved actions. Both novels also s ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers