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... James had fallen under ' the fascination of what's difficult ' , since for him every new novel he ventured represented a technical problem to be solved . Yet this is only part of the truth , easily exaggerated if we rely overmuch on James's ...
... James had fallen under ' the fascination of what's difficult ' , since for him every new novel he ventured represented a technical problem to be solved . Yet this is only part of the truth , easily exaggerated if we rely overmuch on James's ...
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... James's technical innovations and all his attempts to make of the novel a self - contained whole carrying within itself a maximum significance . Ethics are one thing and aesthetics doubtless another , but it was James's principle that ...
... James's technical innovations and all his attempts to make of the novel a self - contained whole carrying within itself a maximum significance . Ethics are one thing and aesthetics doubtless another , but it was James's principle that ...
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... James heightens all his characters in this way . Our impression of Milly Theale is the sum of the impressions made by her on Mrs Stringham , Kate , Densher . We see Kate as an heroic figure because that is how Densher and Milly see her ...
... James heightens all his characters in this way . Our impression of Milly Theale is the sum of the impressions made by her on Mrs Stringham , Kate , Densher . We see Kate as an heroic figure because that is how Densher and Milly see her ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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