This dissertation explores the literary and philosophical intersections between Henry James's works of fiction and the writings of William James, Charles Peirce, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The latter three were primary figures in the development of Pragmatism, a philosophical movement which emphasizes that the value of a belief or idea emerges through action and tangible, social consequences. Applying a Pragmatist approach to Henry James's fiction provides a basis for clarifying new readings of his narratives, but, at the same time, applying a literary approach to Pragmatism leads to new understandings of the philosophy. The main purpose of this project, then, is to articulate and examine the workings of a literary Pragmatism by trac...
My dissertation, Late Henry James: Money, War and the End of Writing, revises the dominant account o...
publication prévue avec Continuum en 2017International audienceThere are few authors besides Henry J...
This dissertation elaborates an American pragmatist aesthetic tradition that anticipates recent tur...
This dissertation examines the modern, worldly dimensions of Henry James’s literary practice evident...
An analysis of the psychological and philosophical dimensions of two central symbols of Henry James'...
TIlls thesis identifies and interrogates the correspondences between American pragma~st philosophy a...
Inspired by a resurgence of interest in pragmatism, recent literary theorists have begun appreciativ...
This thesis analyzes the operation, in much of Henry James's fiction, of ideas about how people sho...
A dimension of the later style of the fiction of Henry James is its deep concern not with selves and...
Henry James, properly named world writer, was one of the first modern novelists, with an exigent wri...
An analysis of the relationship between the two authors, their debates over romance and realism and ...
This dissertation examines how metaphor works in Henry James's fiction to endow his characters, narr...
This dissertation defines and analyzes the primary attributes of a new sub-genre of contemporary fic...
The several French ideological practices and French characters in the fiction of the American noveli...
When speaking of the philosophical importance of James’s late style, critics and philosophers have t...
My dissertation, Late Henry James: Money, War and the End of Writing, revises the dominant account o...
publication prévue avec Continuum en 2017International audienceThere are few authors besides Henry J...
This dissertation elaborates an American pragmatist aesthetic tradition that anticipates recent tur...
This dissertation examines the modern, worldly dimensions of Henry James’s literary practice evident...
An analysis of the psychological and philosophical dimensions of two central symbols of Henry James'...
TIlls thesis identifies and interrogates the correspondences between American pragma~st philosophy a...
Inspired by a resurgence of interest in pragmatism, recent literary theorists have begun appreciativ...
This thesis analyzes the operation, in much of Henry James's fiction, of ideas about how people sho...
A dimension of the later style of the fiction of Henry James is its deep concern not with selves and...
Henry James, properly named world writer, was one of the first modern novelists, with an exigent wri...
An analysis of the relationship between the two authors, their debates over romance and realism and ...
This dissertation examines how metaphor works in Henry James's fiction to endow his characters, narr...
This dissertation defines and analyzes the primary attributes of a new sub-genre of contemporary fic...
The several French ideological practices and French characters in the fiction of the American noveli...
When speaking of the philosophical importance of James’s late style, critics and philosophers have t...
My dissertation, Late Henry James: Money, War and the End of Writing, revises the dominant account o...
publication prévue avec Continuum en 2017International audienceThere are few authors besides Henry J...
This dissertation elaborates an American pragmatist aesthetic tradition that anticipates recent tur...