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Henry James' "What Maisie Knew".
Date Submitted: 06/12/2001 05:11:20
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 9 pages (2366 words)
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 9 pages (2366 words)
1. Introduction
"James's narrator, this invisible adult - and probably masculine - presence, has a significant role to play..." This is what Millicent Bell thinks about the role of the narrator in What Maisie Knew by Henry James.
In this paper, I will try to show the importance of the way the story is narrated for the effect it has on the reader.
I will first try to find a general definition for the term "narrator" …
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…Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. 2nd edition. London: Edward Arnold, 1994.
Mitchell, Juliet. "What Maisie Knew: portrait of the artist as a young girl." The Air of Reality. New Essays on Henry James. Ed. John Goode. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1972.
O'Neill, Patrick. Fictions of Discourse: Reading Narrative Theory. Toronto: U of Toronto Pr, 1994.
Peck, John and Martin Coyle. Literary Terms and Criticism. 2nd edition. London: MacMillan, 1993.
Pirie, Gordon. Henry James. London: Evans Brothers Ltd., 1974.
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