亨利·詹姆斯
2000-12
上海外语教育出版社
弗里曼 编
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本书选用了12篇风格迥异的最新评论文章，从新的视角对亨利.詹姆斯这位著名作家进行了全面的研究。本书的特点在于从多个侧面展示亨利.詹姆斯及其主要作品，并着力探讨他的现实意义，因而对于我们当前拓展恩路，开阔视野，深入研究美国文学无疑具有很大价值。本书对于美国戏剧
"List of Contributors
Preface
A Henry James Cbronology
Introduction:The Moment of Henry James
JONATHAN FREEDM
N_1 Men,Women,and the American Way
MARTHA BANTA
2 The James Family Theatricals:Behind the Scenes
FRANCES WILS
N_3 Henry James at Work:The Question of Our Texts
PHILP HORNE
4 Henry James and the Invention of Novel Theory
DOROTHY J.HALE
5 Henry James and the Idea of Evil
ROBERT WEISBUCH
6 Queer Henry In the Cage
HUGH STEVENS
7 The Unmentionable Subject in The Pupil
MILLICENT BELL
8 Realism,Culture,and the Place of the Literary:
Henry James and The Bostonians
9 Lambert Strethers Excellent Adventure
ERIC HARALS
N_10 Jamess Elusive Wings
WILLIAM STOWE
11 Henry Jamess American Dream in The Golden Bowl
MARGERY SAB
N_12 Affirming the Alien:The Pragmatist Pluralism
of The American Scene
ROSS POSNOCK
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
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Commentators have so often cited the various sexual shadings of the Gov-erness‘s visions that it seems almost shameful to rehearse them， but every sighting of the ghosts includes a potentially sexualimplication: Quint’s phal-lic appearance takes place just as the Governess wonders if she is to see her desirable employer; the Governess sees Miss Jessel in communion with Flo-ra as Flora makes a toy boat by sticking a mast-like stick into a flat piece ofwood. This is truest in the final scene， where the Governess‘s forcing Miles to view the apparition of Quint - “the devil，” “the hideous author of our woe” （ 8 8） - is rendered in a language suffused with double entendres （“witha moan of joy， I enfolded， I drew him close” [85]） and energized by orgias-tic， superhot syntax. What is interestingly anomalous .to these exclusively sexual readings is the presence of an equally inappropriate language: that of a cold yet egomaniacal scientist. In the final， fatal confrontation with Miles，she is “so determined to have all my proof”: contradicting utterly her earli- er attempt to keep the specter from Miles’s sight， she requires him to viewQuint “for the demonstration of my work.” Both qualities - the eroticism，the unnatural intellectual removal - are functions of egotism， as the Gov-erness is by now far more concerned with her own dramas than with pro-tecting her charges. Flora goes mad and Miles dies in her arms; she imagines the latter as a creature hurtling over an abyss: “i caught him， yes， l held him- it may be imagined with what a passion” and yet “his little heart， dispos-sessed， had stopped” （88）. ……
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