Adapting to the Stage: Theatre and the Work of Henry JamesRoutledge, 01/11/2017 - 206 páginas This title was first published in 2000: The American novelist and playwright, Henry James, was drawn to the theatre and the shifting conventions of drama throughout his writing career. This study demonstrates that from the 1890s onwards James concentrated on adapting his novels and stories to and from the stage, and increasingly employed metaphors that spoke of novel-writing in terms of playwriting. Christopher Greenwood argues that these metaphors helped James to conceive himself as an artist who composed characters dramatically and visually, and in doing so sets his novels significantly apart from those of his contemporaries. In the introduction to the first part of the book, Greenwood examines James's career within the context of contemporary European and North American theatre, providing an appraisal of what James gained from contemporary theatre, his position in that milieu, and what he brought to it. Part 2 of the book focuses on two novels: "The Other House" and "The Spoils of Poynton", both of which illustrate the ways in which James used the mechanism of contemporary theatre to communicate a character's personality. Discussion of these two works is used to throw light on similar concerns that develop in James's later writing. |
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... describes James's involvement with the theatre and demonstrates the ways in which that involvement illuminates his thinking about novel-writing. Increasingly, metaphors that spoke of novel-writing in terms of playwriting and painting ...
... describes a set of his works that I have called the 'Summersoft' group. Each uses the same country-house, taken from the 1888 story 'The Lesson of the Master' as its location. Furthermore, Summersoft, a play written in 1895, Covering ...
... describes a scene much more closely related to the individual human being than does the former, in terms of spiritual capacities as well as physical dimensions. Which, to adapt a Jamesian metaphor, is to say that these instances of the ...
... describes. As Martha Nussbaum has it, writing of The Golden Bowl: James tells us in his preface that he has elected to avoid 'the mere muffled majesty of irresponsible “authorship”' and to become a responsible (and, we suspect ...
... describes the links between the construction of Daisy Miller and that of the well - made play . In James's mind the well - made play was the only viable choice for a writer determined to achieve artistic as well as financial success as ...
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Psychological Space in The Summersoft Group and the Late Plays | |
Ellipsis and the Fourth Wall | |
Abandoning the Soliloquy | |
Psychology Embodied | |
The Poetry of Something Sensibly Gone | |
The Material Self | |
Index | |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Adapting to the Stage: Theatre and the Work of Henry James Christopher Greenwood Visualização de excertos - 2000 |
Adapting to the Stage: Theatre and the Work of Henry James Chris Greenwood Pré-visualização indisponível - 2018 |
Adapting to the Stage: Theatre and the Work of Henry James Chris Greenwood Pré-visualização indisponível - 2017 |