亨利·詹姆斯早期小说中的现代主义特征研究以《黛西·米勒》和《一位女士的画像》为例.pdf

3 twelve short stories, fifteen plays, nume rous essays and a large number of literary correspondences. Henry James’ creative life is usually grouped into three periods. The early stage of James’ creation covers th e period from 1875 to the middle of 1880s, during which James established himself as a writer dealing with the “international theme”. The important works of this period include Roderick Hudson (1875), The Americans (1877), The Europeans (1878) and Daisy Miller (1879) which won him international fame, and this peri od of creation is culminated by The Portrait of a Lady (1882) , held so far as his most widely read novel. The middle st age, extending from the mid-1880s to 1897, serves as the transiti onal phase, during which he experimented with diverse themes and literary forms. From 1885 to 1890, he turned his attention from international theme to the reformers, revolutionaries, and political aspirants, composing three novels concerned about social and political currents — The Bostonians (1886), The Princess Casamassima (1886), and The Tragic Muse (1890). After that, he attempted to win recognition as a playwright, but his writings for the stage were not well received. In the last period of his career, roughly from 1897 to 1916, James turned back to novel writing. The posed during this period, such as What Maisie Knew (1897), and The Turn of the Screw (1898), are famous for their deep exploration of human psychology. After the turn of the twentieth century, James returned to his former international subjects and produced three great novels in ession, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassador (1903), and The Golden Bowl (1904). These three masterpieces, charact erized by a most el aborate style and plexity, represent the summit of James’ creation. 2. Reception of Henry James at Abroad and Home Like many precursors of the time, the va lue of Henry James also went through a process of disco