(15)Henry James

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,The first modern psychological realist,Henry James,(1843-1916),.Social Context,born into a wealthy cultured family,unsystematic education and an eccentric succession of tutors and institutions both at home and abroad.,a lifelong observance and record of society,.Literary Achievements,First stage (1865-1881):,“Daisy Miller” (1878), which established his reputation at home and abroad and helped to make of the American girl a celebrated cultural,type.(Old,Europe: cultured,sophisticated;New,America: innocent, idealistic),“The American” (1877),“The Portrait of a Lady” (1881),(Henry James developed the international novel, which brings together persons of various nationalities who represent certain characteristics of their respective countries.),.Literary Achievements,Second stage (1882-1895),“The Bostonian” (1886),“The Turn of the Screw” (1898),(In the second stage, he experimented with various subjects and forms: first, between 1886 and 1890, three novels in the naturalistic mode: “The Bostanians”, “The Princess Casamassima”, “The Tragic Muse” (1890) ; second, between 1895 and 1900, he turned to three dominant subjects, troubled writers and artists, ghosts and apparitions, doomed or threatened children and adolescents.,.Literary Achievements,Third stage:,“The Wings of the Dove” (1902),“The Ambassadors” (1903),“The Golden Bowl” (1904),(They all deal with his “grand theme of freedom through perception: only awareness of ones own character and others provides the wisdom to live well. The treatment of this theme in these books, however, is characterized by richness of syntax, characterization, point of view, symbolic romance, metaphoric texture and organizing rhythm),Questions:,1. Summarize the story in your own words.,2. What is the theme of the story? Who do Isabel and Madame Merle represent? What does the conflict between Isabel and Madame Merle represent?,3. Can we change the title “The Portrait of a Lady” into “A Portrait of the Lady”?,