 She sits up, by her dying fire, far into the night, under the spell of recognitions on which she finds the last sharpness suddenly wait. It is a representation simply of her motionlessly seeing^ and an attempt withal to make the mere still lucidity of...  The Advance of the American Short Story - 131. lappuseautors: Edward Joseph O'Brien - 1923 - 302 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Henry James - 1908 - 468 lapas
...have done. It was designed to have all the vivacity of incident and all the economy of picture. She sits up, by her dying fire, far into the night, under...interesting " as the surprise of a caravan or the idcntification of a pirate. It represents, for that matter, one of the identifications dear to the... | |
 | Henry James - 1969 - 372 lapas
...it in disgust"; to Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, another innocent betrayed, keeping vigil "by her dying fire, far into the night, under the...which she finds the last sharpness suddenly wait." The echo strikes from one of James's primary and profoundest convictions. It sounds in some of its... | |
 | Henry James, James Edwin Miller - 1972 - 394 lapas
...done. It was designed to have all the vivacity of incident and all the economy of picture. She [Isabel] sits up, by her dying fire, far into the night, under...surprise of a caravan or the identification of a pirate." The sense of initiation and discovery here leads us to believe that this magnificent scene in James's... | |
 | Henry James - 1986 - 524 lapas
...stand up with her hand resting on a table and look out at you in a certain way . . ." (p. 174). 298:25. as "interesting" as the surprise of a caravan or the identification of a pirate. In The Golden Bowl (XXIV, 5, II), Maggie Verver finds that "the straight vindictive view . . . figured... | |
 | Martha Banta - 1987 - 184 lapas
...Isabel Archer recognizes the truth of her marriage, of Gilbert Osmond, of all that her life has become: "It is a representation simply of her motionlessly...surprise of a caravan or the identification of a pirate" (Art, 57). One senses here James's confidence that with The Portrait of a Lady he has achieved that... | |
 | Sharon Cameron - 1989 - 220 lapas
...vigil. ... It was designed to have all the vivacity of incident and all the economy of picture. She sits up, by her dying fire, far into the night, under the spell of recognitions. ... It is a representation simply of her motionlessly seeing, and an attempt withal to make the mere... | |
 | Pamela Schirmeister - 1990 - 254 lapas
...the preface suggests that bethought it a fine example of romance, albeit highly internalized: "She sits up, by her dying fire, far into the night, under...surprise of a caravan or the identification of a pirate" (p. i084). 6. Speaking of The Faerie Oueene, Hollander writes: "To talk of Mammon's House; of Isis... | |
 | Marcia Landy - 1991 - 624 lapas
...to discovery about Gilbert Osmond. "It is," says James, "a representation simply of her motionlcssly seeing, and an attempt withal to make the mere still...surprise of a caravan or the identification of a pirate." The terms of reference in the adventure story are mocked; yet they remain the terms of reference: moral... | |
 | Robert M. Crunden - 1993 - 518 lapas
...Archer's long meditation by the dying fire, as her memory played over the course of her unhappy life. "It is a representation simply of her motionlessly...still lucidity of her act as 'interesting' as the surprises of a caravan or the identification of a pirate." It all happens "without her being approached... | |
 | Peter Brooks - 1995 - 260 lapas
...sits up and makes her mind move from discovery to discovery about Gilbert Osmond. "It is," says James, "a representation simply of her motionlessly seeing,...surprise of a caravan or the identification of a pirate." 5 The terms of reference in the adventure story are mocked; yet they remain the terms of reference:... | |
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