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The Ambassadors

Name: The Ambassadors
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Author: Henry James
ISBN: 9780809596546

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440 sidor
2004

The material of THE AMBASSADORS, conforming in this respect exactly to that of THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, published just before it, is taken absolutely for the stuff of drama; so that, availing myself of the opportunity given me by this edition for some prefatory remarks on the latter work, I had mainly to make on its behalf the point of its scenic consistency. It disguises that virtue, in the oddest way in the world, by just LOOKING, as we turn its pages, as little scenic as possible; but it sharply divides itself, just as the composition before us does, into the parts that prepare, that tend in fact to overprepare, for scenes, and the parts, or otherwise into the scenes, that justify and crown the preparation. It may definitely be said, I think, that everything in it that is not scene (not, I of course mean, complete and functional scene, treating ALL the submitted matter, as by logical start, logical turn, and logical finish) is discriminated preparation, is the fusion and synthesis of picture...

Författare: Henry James
Format: Inbunden
ISBN: 9780809596546
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 440
Utgivningsdatum: 2004-01-01
Förlag: Wildside Press