Beschreibung
Inscribed at the threshold of several cultures, James’s literary work continues to be provocative today, as much by the suggestion of a hidden design, concealed from the reader’s view, as by the successive interpretations to which it has given rise. This study explores the "gems" that spangle the "carpet" of his prose.
Autorenportrait
Jean Perrot is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at Paris University. His main publications include
(Paris, 1976),
(Nancy, 1991),
(Paris, 2001),
(Paris, 2011). He has edited
for P.I.E Peter Lang in 2004.
Inhalt
Content: Introduction: Towards Westminster Abbey: the Twin’s Mythical Eternity – Deciphering Europe: Landscape and the Art of Fiction – Walter Pater, Henry James and Freud probing Leonardo da Vinci’s Family Novel – Passionate Attraction: From Faraday, Swedenborg to Théophile Gautier, Charles Fourier and Wilde – Henry James and Sacher-Masoch: From the Love of Statues to the Fear of Ghosts – Investigating the Victorian Nursery: James’s Self-Analysis of the «Frightened Cry-Baby» in the Hands of Dr Skinner – The Solar Myth: Twin Structures: Impulses of Death and Civilization – Anamorphosis and the Secret of Mr Tishbein seen «from the Jolly Corner» – Towards the Grotesque and Beyond: Caricature from Francis Grose to Dracula – A Love of James? – Conclusion: «The Heir of all the Ages» in the Pleiades of the Cultural West: a Symbolic Revolution.
