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| Named Person: | Henry James |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John H Pearson |
| ISBN: | 0271016590 9780271016597 |
| OCLC Number: | 35249429 |
| Description: | 168 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | What's in a preface? what's in a frame? what's in it for James? -- The politics of the preface -- Tales of origin and James's aesthetic memory -- Authorial performance and subversions of reading : The wings of the dove and What Maisie knew -- Meaning, context, intertext : a preface to ten tales -- Consciousness and the construction of identity : reading The portrait of a lady through the preface. |
| Responsibility: | John H. Pearson. |
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- James, Henry, -- 1843-1916 -- Technique.
- Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
- Authors and readers -- United States.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Fiction -- Technique.
- Prefaces.
- Romankunst.
- Voorwoorden.
