Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels by Maya Higashi, Professor Wakana
By Maya Higashi, Professor Wakana
Focusing on James's final 3 accomplished novels – The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl – Maya Higashi Wakana exhibits how a microsociological method of James's novels extensively revises the frequent culture of placing James's characters into historic and cultural contexts. Wakana starts off with the idea that day by day dwelling is inherently theatrical and hence duplicitous, and is going directly to exhibit that James's artwork is predicated considerably on his strong experience of the agonizing or even risky issues of mundane face-to-face rituals that pervade his paintings. Centrally proficient by means of social thinkers resembling G. H. Mead and Erving Goffman, Wakana's research discloses the richness, complexity, and singularity of the interpersonal connections depicted in James's past due novels. Persuasively argued, and wealthy in unique shut readings, her ebook makes a big contribution to James's reports and to theories of social interaction.
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