Aspects and prospects : pittoresque et romanesque dans The American Scene de Henry James

In The American Scene, Henry James recapitulates many of the commonplaces of picturesque travel writing. However, while the New York cityscape puts inordinate pressure on the discriminations upon which this genre depends, James intermittently transcends both the ensuing implosion of its more gente...

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第一著者: Abrioux, Yves
フォーマット: Article ou chapitre numérique
言語:Français
出版事項: 2001
オンライン・アクセス:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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要約:In The American Scene, Henry James recapitulates many of the commonplaces of picturesque travel writing. However, while the New York cityscape puts inordinate pressure on the discriminations upon which this genre depends, James intermittently transcends both the ensuing implosion of its more genteel distinctions and the conventional intertwining of fictional and descriptive motifs which the picturesque encourages. Indeed, the monuments on Riverside Heights afford the traveller a prospect which impels him to radicalise the most potent historico-political and epistemological dimensions of picturesque writing.