| Meaning in Henry James Contributor(s): Bell, Millicent (Author) |
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ISBN: 067455762X ISBN-13: 9780674557628 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $76.48 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.4 |
| LCCN: 91-8164 |
| Physical Information: 1.22" H x 6.51" W x 9.61" (1.63 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Henry James rebelled against the tyranny and banality of plots. Believing a life to have many potential paths and a self to hold many destinies, he hung the evocative shadow of what might have been over much of what he wrote. Yet James also realized that no life can be lived - and no story written - except by submission to some outcome. In this study of James's work, Millicent Bell explores this oscillation between hope and fatalism, indeterminacy and form, and uncertainty and meaning. In the process Bell provides fresh insight into how we read and interpret fiction. |