Literature as Conduct : Speech Acts in Henry James.
Title:
Literature as Conduct : Speech Acts in Henry James.
Author:
Miller, J. Hillis.
ISBN:
9780823225392
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (366 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Primary Text and Abbrevations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: History, Narrative, Responsibility: "The Aspern Papers" -- Chapter 2: The Story of a Kiss: Isabel's Decisions in The Portrait of a Lady -- Chapter 3: Unworked and Unavowable: Community in The Awkward Age -- Chapter 4: Lying against Death: The Wings of the Dove -- Chapter 5: "Conscious Perjury": Declarations of Ignorance in The Golden Bowl -- Chapter 6: The "Quasi-Turn-of-Screw Effect," or How to Raise a Ghost with Words: The Sense of the Past -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in JamesGs fiction.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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