Henry James’s New Approach to the Autobiographical Genre: The Growing Consciousness of A Small Boy

María Antonia ALVAREZ

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Henry James’s New Approach to the Autobiographical Genre: The Growing Consciousness of A Small Boy

Yazarlar:

María Antonia ALVAREZ

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1997 Issue 5, pp.59-68

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/1997

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735341

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

Autobiography is essential to American literature, since it is not only a genre with  the most significant origins and famous classics, but also “a necessity in order to  say who we are and where we have been.” It is both a part of “our daily vernacular  and our earliest heritage,” which can be traced back to the Puritan diaries and the  travel narratives popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries  Sayre 147 .  An authentic autobiography must be “a weave in which self-consciousness is  delicately threaded throughout interrelated experience.” It may have such varied  functions as “self-explication, self-discovery, self-clarification, self-formation, selfpresentation, self-justification.” All these functions “interpenetrate easily, but all  are centered upon an aware self, aware of its relation to its experiences”  Weintraub  842 . This is the case of Henry James’s Autobiography, since in the form of a  dramatic, distended monologue, he draws the evolution of his conscience in a  timeless, spaceless world, as the best example of his stream of consciousness  technique. Written in the most refined style of his latest novels, it can be considered  a literary experiment in the genre by a writer consistently devoted to change. This  article argues that without reading James’s memoirs, we cannot understand the rest  of his work.

Makale detayları

Henry James’s New Approach to the Autobiographical Genre: The Growing Consciousness of A Small Boy

Yazarlar: María Antonia ALVAREZ

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1997 Issue 5, pp.59-68

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/1997

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735341

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

María Antonia ALVAREZ

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1997 Issue 5, pp.59-68

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/1997

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735341

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606