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11 janvier 2013
- handle: 10670/1.d67o6p
- isbn: 9781906924379
- eisbn: 9781906924386
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Nelly Valtat-Comet, « 17. The Absent Writer in The Tragic Muse », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.d67o6p
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The reading I would like to propose here will focus on one particular element of The Tragic Muse that is not foregrounded but implied, and yet informs much of the novel’s development—an aspect that belongs more to the fantastic than the realistic vein in James’s inspiration, by which I mean the overriding absence of a genius of letters and of an ideal text. A large proportion of Book I in The Tragic Muse is devoted to long and rather sophisticated Oxbridge conversations between, mostly, Nick ...