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Order and Design
Richard P. Gage
其他書名
Henry James Titled Story Sequences
出版
P. Lang
, 1988
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
ISBN
0820406872
9780820406879
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=B1auAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Henry James wrote six collections of stories to which he gave titles distinct from any stories contained therein. This study analyzes thematic continuities and ideas that led James to sequence the tales in these collections. Gage also analyzes
Volume
Eighteen
of the «New York Edition» to reveal how James's redeployment of stories from
The Better Sort
yields a different design from the earlier collections. James's ordering of tales is not haphazard but purposeful. In the titled collections, he builds narratives to distill themes suggested by the titles. In
Volume Eighteen,
the reader is left to create the title or meaning.