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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... Theatrical Straitjacket ' : The Other House and The Spoils of Poynton 5 The ' Cultivation of Limits ' 6 The Other House : Psychology Embodied 7 Fleda's Sense of the Past : The ' Poetry of ... Something Sensibly Gone ' 8 Conclusion : The ...
... theatrical ambitions after such a scene is to paint a far narrower portrait of the man than he deserves. It is, for the sake of a story alone, not only to misrepresent the complexity of his thinking but also to miss an entire dimension ...
... theatrical context . In turn this description leads to a consideration of James's theatrical practice as a metaphor for his writerly practice overall . It seeks to provide an understanding of James's work as a whole of how , in general ...
... theatrical production . Rather , adaptation in a fuller sense ( most definitely in a quasi- Darwinian one ) ... theatrical environment and the theatrical environment of the European mainland . The texts that I have chosen as the chief ...
... theatrical traces in The Spoils of Poynton are undeniable. In 1897 a New York Tribune reviewer commented that 'the little play unfolds from one scene to the next without a single hitch'. 7 The Other House, James's next novel, is ...
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 |