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. |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 48
... relations between the visible and the invisible , presupposes a new use of scenic methods where description gives way to suggestion . It implies the operation of an adapted dramatic style , a new technique of evocation through decor ...
... relations with the contemporary stage , of what his position was within this discourse and of what he brought to it . The most distinct aspect of this history is adaptation but analysing this is not a simple matter of describing how ...
... relation is interrupted , Fleda's fantasy love is reduced to ashes . The fourth wall , as an invisible means of inciting fantasy and reducing intelligibility , finds itself replayed in James's post - 1894 texts in a set of ellipses that ...
... relation between herself and Owen Gereth so as to care for him : - The future was dark to her , but there was a silken thread she could clutch at in the gloom - she would never give Owen away . He might give himself – he even certainly ...
... relations that Owen prefers , throwing things and catching them , the relations that emphasise his need for material gratification , figure this threatening fate for Fleda . She repeatedly shies from such materialism , preferring to ...
Índice
8 | |
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 |