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标题：The Experience of (Cultural) Reality in Henry James’s The Ambassadors
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作者：Ali Taghizadeh
期刊名称：Theory and Practice in Language Studies
印刷版ISSN：1799-2591
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：4
页码：810-817
语种：English
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：The later Henry James’s fiction is a productive field of cultural experience. The present paper takes to analyze the creation of symbolic cultural realities in The Ambassadors through the exposition of James’s main character to the manifestations of Parisian life. To achieve this purpose, it is argued that his character searches for the salvation of his consciousness mainly in language. But in search still of more new experiences, his consciousness often gets extended even beyond language. Cultural reflection in narrative language, negotiation with the other for interpretive analysis, experience as discursive, meaning as culturally represented in narrative, the quest to the beyond of language in search of experience, and cultural reflection for “civilized behavior” are among the issues which the present paper will analyze for the elaboration of its subject. The application of these techniques in James’s novel enables his character to infiltrate history through his consciousness for standing in direction connection with the nature of things.
关键词：James;The Ambassadors;experience;(cultural) reality;language;reflection;transcendence of consciousness