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1、,Henry James,第二组： 张科 周爽 袁思琦 李佳 肖鲜 余鹏华,1,Henry James第二组：1,Henry James,（18431916）,2,Henry James（18431916）2,life,3,life3,Born: 15 April 1843,Birthplace: New York,Father: Eminent scholar,Brother: philosopher and psychologist,4,Born: 15 April 1843Birthplace:,1862 :James entered Harvard Law School,5,1862
2、:James entered Harvard La,In 1875, he decided that Europe was his ideal home and settled in Paris, where he met Flaubert and Maupassant,In 1915, he became British subject,6,In 1875, he decided that Europ,He never took part in public affairs or showed much interest in the economic and social changes
3、of the period,He was deeply interested in the contrast between the old world and the new one, between the European way of life and the American one,7,He never took part in public a,In 1916, he died,In 1976,his ashes were removed to Poets corner in Westminster Abbey,8,In 1916, he died In 1976,8,the f
4、orerunner of stream of consciousness novel,the founder of psychological realism,At the age of 25 he was recognized as the best short story writer in America.,One of the three staunch advocates of 19th century American realism ,the other two being Howells and Mark Twain.,James first achieved recognit
5、ion as a writer of the “international novel”,9,Henry James（18431916）the fore,Works,10,Works10,First period(international theme),11,First period(international the,The Portrait of A Lady (1881),His masterpiece,International theme,12,The Portrait of A Lady (1881),It tells about the fate of one of those
6、 splendid Jamesian American girls, Isabel Archer, arriving in Europe, full of hope, and with a will to live a free and noble life, only to fall prey to the sinister designs of two vulgar and unscrupulous expatriates.,13,It tells about the fate of one,James Literary Criticism,Henry James literary cri
7、ticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. He worked out his influential principles of fiction in The Art of Fiction (1884). The aim of the novel is to present life.To probe the deepest reaches of the psychological and moral nature of human beings,14,James Literary Criticism
8、Hen,Second period,15,Second period15,Third period（major period） return to international theme,16,Third period（major period）,International theme,a story which brings together persons of various nationalities who represent certain characteristics of their countries. The Europeans in James novels are m
9、ore cultured, more concerned with art, and more aware of the subtleties of social situations than James Americans.,The American, however, usually have a morality and innocence which the Europeans lack. James seemed to value both the sophistication of Europe and the idealism of America,17,Internation
10、al themea story whi,Psychological novel,James changed the method of presentation in a novel, shifting the centre of gravity from action to its intellectual and fantastic aspects: external circumstances lose significance before the inward events that take place in a soul.,18,Psychological novelJames chang,Bye,19,Bye19,
