Structuralism and Its Aftermath in the Fiction of Henry James

ISBN-13: 9783659300189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 516 str.

Opis

A dimension of the later style of the fiction of Henry James is a deep concern with images and appearances. It typically pictures the character in in-between situations where he is recognized not as he really is but as he appears, as he shows himself in the projected situation. Another aspect of the later style of James is the magnificence of these appearances, because they are the outcome of reciprocal spaces which in turn signify vivified and productive relations. These facades of Jamess fiction render it a space for a new mode of realistic representation which depends on a kind of language that takes the story into its service, that depends on consciousness dramatization, and on a new kind of verisimilitude. And the watershed of the Jamesian verisimilitude is mainly the work of successive centers of consciousness from where the tale is narrated. To show the deepest layers of the human soul, Jamess narrator can occasionally go beyond the frontiers of language and takes use of the non-verbal structures of culture also. In this mode of fiction, consciousness is dramatized in a process of evolution, and "the real" shown as psychological, relational, and as the product of reading.

O autorze

Ali Taghizadeh was born in August 1969 in Bavanat, Fars, Iran. Since 1997 he has been a member of English Department of Razi University. He defended his doctoral thesis in JFK Institute for North American Studies of FU Berlin in 2011. He is doing a post-doctoral research in Iranian and American postmodern fiction as a space for cultural studies.