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  1. The Continuum of Consciousness
    Author: Eimers, Jennifer
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    The Continuum of Consciousness: Aesthetic Experience and Visual Art in Henry James’s Novels examines the transformative experience of art in James’s fiction. In a 1915 letter to H. G. Wells, James declares, «It is art that makes life.» This book... more

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    The Continuum of Consciousness: Aesthetic Experience and Visual Art in Henry James’s Novels examines the transformative experience of art in James’s fiction. In a 1915 letter to H. G. Wells, James declares, «It is art that makes life.» This book traces the rich implications of this claim. For James, viewing art transformed the self. Many of his contemporaries, including his famous older brother, William, were deeply interested in the study of perception and individual consciousness. James’s fictional use of art reflects these philosophical discussions. Although much valuable scholarship has been devoted to visual art in James’s fiction, the guiding role it often plays in his characters’ experiences receives fuller exploration in this book. A prolonged look at visual art and consciousness through the lens of nineteenth-century British aestheticism reveals intriguing connections and character responses. By highlighting and analyzing his representations of aesthetic consciousness in four novels at specific moments (such as Basil Ransom’s and Verena Tarrant’s contrasting responses to Harvard’s Memorial Hall in The Bostonians and Milly Theale’s identification with a Bronzino painting in The Wings of the Dove), this book ultimately explores the idea that for James art represents «every conscious human activity», as Wells replied to James.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781453911327
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    RVK Categories: HT 5855
    DDC Categories: 810
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: American University Studies ; 198
    Subjects: Kunst <Motiv>; Ästhetik
    Other subjects: James, Henry (1843-1916): The portrait of a lady; James, Henry (1843-1916): The Bostonians; James, Henry (1843-1916): The tragic muse; James, Henry (1843-1916): The wings of the dove
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. The continuum of consciousness
    aesthetic experience and visual art in Henry James's novels
    Author: Eimers, Jennifer
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433122897; 9781453911327
    Series: American University studies. Series IV, English language and literature ; volume 198
    Subjects: Geschichte; Kunst; Wissen; Visual perception in literature; Art in literature; Art and literature; Ästhetik; Kunst <Motiv>
    Other subjects: James, Henry (1843-1916); James, Henry (1843-1916): Portrait of a lady; James, Henry (1843-1916): Bostonians; James, Henry (1843-1916): Tragic muse; James, Henry (1843-1916): Wings of the dove; James, Henry (1843-1916): The wings of the dove; James, Henry (1843-1916): The Bostonians; James, Henry (1843-1916): The tragic muse; James, Henry (1843-1916): The portrait of a lady
    Scope: 1 online resource (130 pages)
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  3. The continuum of consciousness
    aesthetic experience and visual art in Henry James's novels
    Author: Eimers, Jennifer
    Published: 2013

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  4. The Continuum of Consciousness
    Aesthetic Experience and Visual Art in Henry James's Novels
    Author: Eimers, Jennifer
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781453911327
    Other identifier:
    9781453911327
    RVK Categories: HT 5855
    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Kunst <Motiv>
    Other subjects: James, Henry (1843-1916): The portrait of a lady; James, Henry (1843-1916): The Bostonians; James, Henry (1843-1916): The wings of the dove; James, Henry (1843-1916): The tragic muse
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (126 Seiten)
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    The Continuum of Consciousness: Aesthetic Experience and Visual Art in Henry James's Novels examines the transformative experience of art in James's fiction. In a 1915 letter to H. G. Wells, James declares, «It is art that makes life.» This book traces the rich implications of this claim. For James, viewing art transformed the self. Many of his contemporaries, including his famous older brother, William, were deeply interested in the study of perception and individual consciousness. James's fictional use of art reflects these philosophical discussions. Although much valuable scholarship has been devoted to visual art in James's fiction, the guiding role it often plays in his characters' experiences receives fuller exploration in this book. A prolonged look at visual art and consciousness through the lens of nineteenth-century British aestheticism reveals intriguing connections and character responses. By highlighting and analyzing his representations of aesthetic consciousness in four novels at specific moments (such as Basil Ransom's and Verena Tarrant's contrasting responses to Harvard's Memorial Hall in The Bostonians and Milly Theale's identification with a Bronzino painting in The Wings of the Dove), this book ultimately explores the idea that for James art represents «every conscious human activity», as Wells replied to James