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None Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century : Heritage and Transmission, PDF eBook

None Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century : Heritage and Transmission PDF

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To commemorate the recent centennial of Henry James's death and to help readers understand the depth and scope of the author's influence both today and during the previous century, thirty leading Jamesian scholars from twelve different countries and five continents were asked to explore ways in which the notions of 'heritage' and 'transmission' currently come into play when reading James.

The resulting chapters of this volume are divided into three main sections, each focusing on different ways in which James's legacy is being re-evaluated today-from his influence on key authors, playwrights and film-makers over the past century (Part One), to new discoveries regarding European authors and artists who influenced James (Part Two), to recent approaches more radically re-evaluating James for the twenty-first century, including contemporary poetics, political and sociological dimensions, cognitive science, and queer studies (Part Three).

This collection will be of great interest to scholars and general readers of James, and is a useful guide to tracing the writer's ever-elusive 'figure in the carpet' and understanding the power of his continued impact today.

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