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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... Drama 3 ' A Projected Form ' : Ellipsis and the Fourth Wall 4 Conclusion : Abandoning the Soliloquy Part II ' The Theatrical Straitjacket ' : The Other House and The Spoils of Poynton 5 The ' Cultivation of Limits ' 6 The Other House ...
... number ( e.g. NY 9 262 ) . Henry James , The Scenic Art , Notes on Acting and the Drama 1872- 1901 , ed . Allan Wade ( Hart - Davis , 1949 ) . Acknowledgements My thanks are due to the general editors of Abbreviations.
... DRAMA ... a record of movements in the air . ' Un tel théâtre , où se jouent les rapports secrets du visible et de l ... dramatic style , a new technique of evocation through decor ' ( my translation ) . Introduction Abandoning the ...
... dramatic work in their particular media. His taste in painting and his appreciation of the theatre, even his occasional words on poetry and his preference for certain novelists, all indicate that drama was the quality he abstracted for ...
... drama within the genre of the novel and having , by his own estimate , achieved questionable success , James turned to the more popular and more likely medium of the stage . His decision to write stage - plays , an art form that he had ...
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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 |