Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1978

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Pearce, Howard D.

Abstract

Henry James's structuring of time and space in three short stories is intrinsically related to his overall treatment of the development of the characters' consciousnesses. Caroline Spencer ("Four Meetings"), Paul Overt ("The Lesson of the Master"), and John Marcher ("The Beast in the Jungle") are continually faced, in che present context of their experience, with knm·1ledge and reality which they are unable to recognize. Only after extended absences from other characters do they perceive truths about themselves and others in scenes of personal loss and failure. Distancing in time and space is ultimately necessary, in the structures of these three stories and the consciousnesses of their characters, for emotional and intellectual awareness. This pattern is noticeable in James's early period and becomes progressively more refined from the middle to the late fiction.

Extent

70 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1978.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13932

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