Literature as Conduct : : Speech Acts in Henry James / / J. Hillis Miller.
The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James’s fiction. Three mo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Primary Text and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. History, Narrative, Responsibility: ‘‘The Aspern Papers’’
- Chapter 2. The Story of a Kiss: Isabel’s Decisions in The Portrait of a Lady
- Chapter 3. Unworked and Unavowable: Community in The Awkward Age
- Chapter 4. Lying against Death: The Wings of the Dove
- Chapter 5. ‘‘Conscious Perjury’’: Declarations of Ignorance in The Golden Bowl
- Chapter 6. The ‘‘Quasi-Turn-of-Screw Effect,’’ or How to Raise a Ghost with Words: The Sense of the Past
- Notes
- Index