Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the biographical act

• 作者: Caramello, Charles.
• 出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©1996.
• 稽核項: 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) :illustrations.
• 標題: Biography. , Autobiography. , Self in literature. , biographies (literary works) , Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. , United States Biography -- History and criticism. , 1900-1999 , authorship. , Art d'écrire. , Biografieën. , Technique. , BiographyHistory and criticism. , James, Henry, 1843-1916. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Narration (Rhetoric) , Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature. , Authorship , Prose américaine 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique. , Prose américaine , Electronic books. , Vertelkunst. , History and criticism. , American prose literature. , American prose literature , Biography as a literary form. , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , Stein, Gertrude, , United States , LITERARY CRITICISM , Histoire et critique. , English. , autobiography (genre) , Narration. , American prose literature 20th century -- History and criticism. , Biographie (Genre littéraire) , James, Henry, 1843-1916 Technique. , États-Unis , AmericanGeneral. , American Literature. , États-Unis Biographies -- Histoire et critique. , Autobiographie. , Languages & Literatures. , United States. , Biographies as Topic , Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 Technique. , Authorship. , Autobiographies as Topic , James, Henry,
• ISBN: 0807860700 , 9780807860700
• ISBN: 0807822671 , 9780807822678
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• 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.
• 摘要: Charles Caramello argues that Henry James and Gertrude Stein performed biographical acts in two senses of the phrase: they wrote biography, but as a cover for autobiography. Constructing literary genealogies while creating original literary forms, they used their biographical portraits of precursors and contemporaries to portray themselves as exemplary modern artists. In doing so, they actually became exemplars, and Caramello treats them not only as artists, as developers of modernist portraiture, but also as types, as emblems in an ideal history of modernism. Caramello advances his argument through close readings of four works that explore themes of artistry and influence and that experiment with forms of biographical portraiture: James's early biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his much later group biography, William Wetmore Story and his Friends, and Stein's celebrated Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and her largely forgotten Four in America, which comprises biographies of Ulysses S. Grant, Wilbur Wright, Henry James, and George Washington. As Caramello shows, James and Stein portrayed artistic exemplarity in terms broader than the aesthetic. In Hawthorne, James linked his precursor's romantic art and his conservative politics, presented Hawthorne as uncritical in both arenas, and, implicity, proferred himself as a critical thinker of modern artistic principles and progressive social vision. He repeated the maneuver, with complex variations, in the more overtly political William Wetmore Story. In the Autobiography and in Four in America, Stein explored how patriarchy produces and enshrines masculine art, just as it produces and enshrines masculine cultural icons, and she proferred her art and herself, in counterpoint, as lesbian and feminist.
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