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标题："The Portrait", “The Wings" and James's Theory
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作者：Matković, Ivan
期刊名称：Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia
印刷版ISSN：0039-3339
出版年度：1980
卷号：24
期号：-
页码：279-295
语种：English
出版社：University of Zagreb
摘要：The article deals with the relationship between James's early and later phase of writing and with the relationship between. his aesthetic theory an-d his literary rpractice. By contrasting the different narrative techniques employed in The Portrait of a Lady and in The Wings of the Dove the article aims at establishing which of these two novels 'is a "better" "novel. The examination is accomplished through a brief analysis of the point-of-view, narrative personna, plotting, sentence structure and gsymbolic texture of both novels. The evidence supplied by the analysis «is compared to James's own critical criteria in order to establish to what extent his technique relates to his aesthetic .theory and to what extent it correslponds to his ovmí standards. This way one could determine whether there were any deductions from the primary principles which became more important to James in his "major phase" off writing. The results of the analysis and the comparison demonstrate that The Wings of the Dove is a greater literary achievement, but that the aest-hetic criteria implicit in that choice were not the ones James valued the most. The differences in technique, and in the resulting quality stem out of James's willingness;to experiment and out of his endless battle against limitations in presenting experience.