Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1979

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Pearce, Howard D.

Abstract

Henry James's concern with "age," both as concept and in regard to character, involves variable temporal factors such as simple chronological age as opposed to, for instance, psychological age. The particular manifestations of age can be categorized ucder the headings of ambiguity, transformation and paradox. These techniques arise throughout James's fiction as a result of underlying polarity. Polarity, which is characterized by interpenetrated possibilities, can be linked to William James's pragmatism, thereby elucidating Henry's tendency toward pragmatistic thought. Works chosen to represent ambiguities of age are The Awkward Age, "The Middle Years," and "The Jolly Corner"; transformation, "The Last of the Valerii," "The Aspern Papers," The Golden Bowl , and The Ambassadors; paradox, "Daisy Miller, "The Pupil," The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl.

Extent

76 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14002

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