THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF HENRY JAMES’S NOVELLAS
Keywords:
Henry James, novella, short fiction, psychologism, ironic narration, ambiguity, composition, artistic individuality.Abstract
This thesis examines the distinctive artistic features of Henry James’s short prose, including psychological centralization, indirect meaning, ambiguity, ironic distance, delayed realization, and a compositional structure that allows for open interpretation. Drawing on “The Beast in the Jungle,” “The Birthplace,” and other works of short fiction, the study explores the individual poetics of James’s novella writing.
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