Writing and Reading in Henry James

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The relevance of folkloristics to the analysis of modern narrative....Pages 3-13
Epic laws and The Aspern Papers: A first analysis....Pages 14-21
The narrative....Pages 22-43
Folklorists and detectives....Pages 44-56
Analysis of narration, or la parole pleine....Pages 57-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
A linguistic fallacy....Pages 67-74
A literary taboo....Pages 75-82
The literary community in the context of society....Pages 83-90
Twin demons....Pages 91-97
Products of observation and imagination....Pages 98-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
The concept of the fount....Pages 115-117
That frivolous thing an observer....Pages 118-140
From artist to critic....Pages 141-163
On gardening....Pages 164-173
Reader and critic writ large....Pages 174-190
A word on critics....Pages 191-195
Epilogue....Pages 196-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-242