Abstract
This paper explains that Shakespeare's "Hamlet" resonates in Henry James' "Turn of the Screw". The author points out that the latter text can be said to replicate the structure of the former. The paper relates that both texts use ghosts.

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This research provides a comparison and contrast of Shakespeare's "Hamlet"and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw". The research will identify ways in which "Hamlet " resonates in James's story with a view toward evaluating the extent to which elements of the ..."

Tags:Hamlet, Henry James

Turn of the Screw, Shakespeare

Shakespeare

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This paper compares and contrasts the tendencies of Henry James in his writings. "The Beast in The Jungle", "The Jolly Corner", and "The Portrait of a Lady" are three of James' works that are examined in detail. In particular, this paper focuses on the protagonists of each of the writings respectively. A strong comparison is made between the three protagonists of these writings, and their miserable lives. On the other hand, the protagonist of James' story "The Tragic Muse" is shown to lead a life of happiness and success. The paper notes the clear differences between this story and the others, therefore explaining what leads the character on a different path.

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"In contrast, Portrait of a Lady presents Ralph as an invalid who lives vicariously through a woman named Isabel Archer whom he leads to doom. He bestows upon her a large sum of money, despite his father's warning that fortune hunters will target her for it. Ralph replies, "That's a risk, and it has entered into my calculation...I'm prepared to take it" (p. 161). Ralph is financially generous to Isabel not out of love but out of a morbid fascination. He wants to see what she will do with it. When Isabel marries a gold-digger, she fulfills the victim role that Ralph's father had feared. Ralph's fascination with Isabel's life overcomes any concern he might have had for her welfare."

Tags:beast, corner, jolly, jungle, lady, muse, portrait, tragic, henry, james, protagonist

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This paper has analyzed the supernatural elements of the Gothic genre that appears in "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. By defining the role of ghosts and otherworldly figures in the Gothic genre, they provide a metaphysical altercation of reality in the writings of James and Irving that are Gothic in their style. While James relies on ghosts as a symbolic gesture to the supernatural, Irving relies on a otherworldly "stranger" that provides he link between Rip's own world and the future world that he must awaken to.

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Tags:james, irving, story

Abstract
By examining the typing of characters in this novella, Henry James is able to progress themes and ideas.

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"It is entirely correct to identify a recurrent theme of typing in Henry James novel, Daisy Miller, but it is perhaps a mistake to take this theme at face value. James characters are much deeper than a simple type and it is often the other characters in the novella who are guilty of typing one person or another. By identifying the action of typing and using setting and character, James is able to identify the flaws of the society that is examined in this work and his presentation of an idealized world of human interaction is that much more convincing and appealing."

Tags:daisy, henry, james, miller, winterbourne, ideal, society, typing, characters

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This paper takes an in-depth look at the character of the governess in Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw." According to the paper, this work is a fascinating tale of dementia. It further states that the story is a character study, with the protagonist's trustworthiness being called more and more sharply into question as the story progresses. The further one reads this novella, the more obvious the governess' madness seems, and it also becomes clear that James has been dropping hints about her mental stability the entire time.

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"The governess in Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw' is a fascinating tale of dementia that is concealed by her fine manners, her good heart, and the vividness with which she describes the ghosts that she believes she is seeing. The story is a character study, with the protagonist's trustworthiness being called more and more sharply into question as the story progresses. The further one reads this novella, the more obvious the governess' madness seems, and it also becomes clear that James has been dropping hints about her mental stability the entire time. For a young contemporary reader, the prose is quite dense and sometimes difficult to follow, which means the strangeness of the governess' mind..."

Tags:governess, james, madness

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This paper analyzes Henry James' use of literary images of New York in his short story "The Jolly Corner". It combines extracts from the text with other of James' work (particularly "The American Scene") to show that "The Jolly Corner" may be seen as an autobiography of sorts and provides many deep insights into the life and works of James.

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"The sense of eeriness that Henry James lets exude in The Jolly Corner is the same that one experiences when comparing it to The American Scene. Unlike Washington Square, where contrasts are much more prevalent than comparisons, The Jolly Corner is very nearly, eerily so, a "fictional mirror" of James? non-fictional travelogue. Comparisons can be made at every level with The American Scene: from the pervading themes to the images of New York. It is the intention of this paper to show that, to a very great extent, Henry James? images of New York in The Jolly Corner share the same style of his late period and, in particular, his work The American Scene. By extension, this paper will also contribute to the ongoing argument that The Jolly Corner may be seen as an autobiography of sorts by James."

Tags:autobiography, ghost, imagery, themes

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The paper focuses on the relationships between the young woman and Mr. Mudge, Captain Everard and Mrs. Jordan in Henry James' "In the Cage". The paper highlights how these relationships show us the interconnected and often adversarial relationship between imagination and rage. The paper points out James' argument that the world of fantasy and imagination belongs fundamentally to the rich, while the world of fear and melancholy belongs fundamentally to the poor. The paper further show how James shows that technology complicates, yet can never truly transcends, the boundaries between the rich and the poor.

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"Most of the movement and meaning in Henry James' In the Cage depends upon the establishment of binaries. Even a superficial reading of the text reveals distinctions between the inside and outside of the cage; between James' lengthy, punctuated prose and the curtness of the telegrams; and between the lower and upper classes. Much is at stake also in the doublings of the young protagonist, at different points in time, with nearly every other principal character in the novella. The doublings of the young woman with Mr. Mudge, Captain Everard, and Mrs. Jordan highlight the interconnected and often adversarial relationship between imagination and rage and ultimately show how technology complicates--yet can never truly transcend--the boundaries between the rich and the poor."

Tags:rich, poor, fantasy, melancholy, telegrams

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This paper aims to study images of New York in the works of Henry James. It uses a non-fictional work ("The American Scene") and four fictional works ("The Jolly Corner", "Washington Square", "Crapy Cornelia" and "An International Episode") to argue that there are discernable patterns to James' images and that they appear to develop over the course of his literary career.

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"It is interesting to note that the monster images are applied at a number of levels. First, they are applied at an overall level, where James asks overtly "Had New York, the miscellaneous monster, a heart at all"? Secondly, they are applied at the level of the greedy producer and consumer that James so despises as "monsters of the mere market". Lastly, they are applied at the level of the new immigrants into New York "in their monstrous, presumptuous interest, the aliens, in New York". What these various levels show is the far-reaching range of distrust that James harbored towards all of the various factors undergoing change in New York at that time."

Tags:american, cornelia, corner, crapy, episode, imagery, international, jolly, scene, square, travelogue, washington

Abstract
This paper evaluates James' short story "The Real Thing" and cites arguments by several critics on Henry James' theme of verisimilitude vs. reality in art.

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"In a 1915 letter to H. G. Wells, Henry James stated, "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process." James' statement illustrates one side of the artistic question that was prevalent among intellectuals, writers, and artists in James' era: does art imitate life or does life imitate art? In evaluating art and literature, what is more important, verisimilitude or reality? His contemporary John Ruskin states, "That "great art" is art which represents what is beautiful and good, may not seem a very profound discovery; and the main question may be thought to have all the time lost sight of, namely, "What is beautiful and what is good?"" (Ruskin 345). These questions form the basis of the theme in James' short story "The Real Thing." James' thesis is the subtle and often deceiving difference between what is genuine and what is dissimulated or disguised in art and literature. The author's theory is illustrated in his characters the Monarchs, Oronte, Miss Churm, and the narrator. Through the use of these characters, James shows that the real thing in real life may not be the most beautiful and convincing element in art or literature."

Tags:wealth, art, beauty, literature, nature

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This thesis finds that Henry James' images of New York can be studied and then grouped systematically according to various themes which they represent. These themes are compared, contrasted and analysed in detail. The thesis also finds that there is a clear development in style of the images from James' "early period" through to his "late period".

Introduction
I Chapter One:
I.I The American Scene: A Review
I.II Morality, Manners and the Human Spirit
I.III Masculinity, Femininity and Culture
I.IV Voices in the Air
II. Chapter Two
II.I Washington Square
II.II The Jolly Corner
II.III An International Episode
II.IV Crapy Cornelia
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited

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"I would now like to return to a discussion that was first invoked in Chapter II.III regarding theories of style, specifically: dualism, psychological monism and aesthetic monism. These theories are intrinsically interwoven with discussion of realism and, hence, images of New York in the works of Henry James. To discuss one of these, one needs to discuss the other. "Dualism" contends that a writer's intention may be expressed in a variety of ways. The writer's intention is "deeper" than his expression of it. "Psychological monism" shows that the author's intention directly relates to a particular style. A different intention would, therefore, result in a different style. "Aesthetic monism" argues that an author's intentions are irrelevant in determining the meaning of a work. It is more useful to discuss the intention of the work itself rather than the author."

Tags:imagery, literary, metaphor, style