Henry James: The Contingencies of Style
- ISBN-10
- 1349226610
- ISBN-13
- 9781349226610
- Series
- Henry James
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 212
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993-03-09
- Publisher
- Springer
- Authors
- Kathleen Stassen Berger, Mary Cross
Description
has commented, James's 'use of language against itself is the cleverest of techniques for deconstruction' (Bradbury, 1984, p. 89). Playing his rhetoric off his grammar, James displaced the novel's traditional concern with content and ...
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