10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JAMESEAN»
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Jamesean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Jamesean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Henry James and Modern Moral Life
And in a formulation with a perfect Jamesean grammatical pitch: "Granny wasn't
the kind of girl she couldn't be - and so neither am I" (AA, p. 141). Perhaps the
best figure for the problem James is getting at occurs in The Ambassadors m the
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2
The Cambridge Companion to William James
technocratic mariner smugly guiding his craft on modernity's uncharted seas, the
Jamesean legacy reasserts itself. Lippmann hastens to assure us that science is
not the inhuman, sanitized, positivist attitude mostpeople mistakeit for.
3
The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, ...
If so, how, on Jamesean grounds, could we claim that statement true? James
said a statement might be true because we assumed it verifiable in the long run.
Would "the long run" then verify a statement? If so, how, on Jamesean grounds, ...
Could one carry Jamesean optimism, even if natural, too far — and be foolish
rather than vigorous? Perhaps more subtly, could one, struggling to realize the
optimism that James thinks is natural, find that emotionally one cannot sustain the
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Critique of a Homuncular Model of Mind from the Neo-vitalist ...
CHAPTER FIVE: THE JAMESEAN STREAM OF THOUGHT; CRITIQUING
VERBAL REPORTS Now that we have a fairly good idea of where Dennett is
trying to go with his neo-homuncular model of mind and the verbal reports which
act as ...
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Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of ...
This forms the basis for one of the most sophisticated, sustained criticisms of the
achievements ofJames's fiction, summarized in the following extreme, idealist
reading: "The mind of the Jamesean center of consciousness is free in the sense
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Todd Breyfogle, David Grene,
1999
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The Red Sox and Philosophy: Green Monster Meditations
The Jamesean School thinks its global statistics are better at predicting the future
than local or box score statistics such as ERA and RBI. This sort of holism—in
science and in baseball—sees everything as interrelated. Events are global, not
...
8
Profitable Speculations: Essays on Current Philosophical Themes
Jamesean. Version. William James, however, had a very different agenda. He
was concerned less with the modus operandi of nature than with the psychology
of humans. His interests focused upon matters of affectivity and religion rather
than ...
9
The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural ...
... for the Jamesean realist, to bluff, to assume (or ventriloquize) "the tone of the
historian." "In a digression, a parenthesis or an aside," James complains of what
he calls Trollope's "want of discretion," "he concedes to the reader that he and
this ...
Michael Davitt Bell,
1996
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Real History: Reflections on Historical Practice
4- Finally, it is by no means clear that a full blown “jamesean theory of truth” can
accommodate the elements of realism that KIoppenberg endorses. (For more on
this Iast point, see Hoopes, op. cit.) There is another objection that is sometimes ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JAMESEAN»
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Jamesean is used in the context of the following news items.
Kindness Is Voluntary: On Ian McEwan's The Children Act
McEwan tailors his sentences for each book, but tends toward Jamesean intricacy, rigging each clause with multiple detonations of meaning. «The Millions, Oct 14»
The Protagonist in 'Necessary Errors' Can't Write, but He's Pretty …
And now Crain has honored James by choosing a Jamesean plot for his first novel—the story of an American in Europe. (James was sort of ... «PopMatters, Oct 13»
Book World: Susan Choi's 'My Education' a smart and witty novel …
She spins Regina's voice into a breathless parody of Jamesean analysis — portrait of a lady as a young sex toy. Honestly, few other writers ... «Washington Post, Jul 13»
Book Review: Ron Charles Reviews 'Her Fearful Symmetry' by …
But meanwhile your genteel old friends have already been hideously transformed: Sarah Waters leads this bone-chilling pack with a Jamesean ... «Washington Post, Sep 09»