Maya Higashi Wakana

Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on James's last three completed novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl - Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James's novels radically revises the widespread tradition of putting James's characters into historical and cultural contexts. Wakana begins with the premise that day-to-day living is inherently theatrical and thus duplicitous, and goes on to show that James's art relies significantly on his powerful sense of the agonizing and even dangerous complications of mundane face-to-face rituals that pervade his work. Centrally informed by social thinkers such as G. H. Mead and Erving Goffman, Wakana's study discloses the richness, complexity, and singularity of the interpersonal connections depicted in James's late novels. Persuasively argued, and rich in original close readings, her book makes an important contribution to James's studies and to theories of social interaction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317082217
• Artikelnr.: 45095664

Autorenporträt

Maya Higashi Wakana is a Professor in the College of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University in Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Wanting to Want to Be Straight and Right
Chapter 2 The Stigmatized and the Normals
Chapter 3 Intimacy and Sexuality
Chapter 4 Teams, Teammates, and Intimacy
Chapter 101 Conclusion