Wm & H'ry: Literature, Love, and the Letters between Wiliam and Henry James (Muse Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609381513 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 156 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wilson, author, My Business Is to Create: Blake’s Infinite Writing and Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can’t Look Away . In Hallman’s able hands, Wm and H’ry come dazzlingly alive as well-seasoned guides through the depths and shoals of the writing life and of everyday living.”—Eric G. “J. C. Hallman, with wit and wisdom, maps the now flashing, now somber streams of thought coursing through the correspondence of the James brothers, two of the undisputed geniuses in American letters
In reality, the brothers' minds were inseparable, as the more than eight hundred letters they wrote to each other reveal. It is a great thing to have some one write to one of one's things as if one were a 3d person & you are the only individual who will do this.. Readers generally know only one of the two famous James brothers. "I hope you will continue to give me, when you can, your free impression of my performance. any one else." For the most part, H'ry agreed. "All my life I have unconsciously pragmatised." Wm was never able to be quite so gracious in return. "I can't now explain save by the very fact of the spell itself that Pragmatism cast upon me," H'ry wrote in 1907. William and Henry James served as each other's muse and critic. Sands illustrates what H'ry never stated: even if the "matter" of his fiction was light, the minds behind it lived and died as though it was very heavy indeed. He seemed to best understand this himself only after Wm fully fleshed out his system. Hallman mines the letters for mutual affection and influence, painting a moving portrait of a relationship between two extraordinary men. In 1868, he lashed out at the "every day" elements of two of H'ry's early stories, and then explained: "I have uttered this long rigmarole in a dogmatic manner, as one speaks, to himself, but of course you will use it merely as a mass to react against in your own way, so that it may serve you some good purpose." He b
Helene Cardona said A Marvel of a Book. J.C. Hallman's "Wm & H'ry" is an insightful, thorough analysis of Henry and William James's letters,a delightfully intelligent and intimate study of their work, mutual influence,and the profound impact of the masters' legacy.~ Hélène Cardona, actor, poet and Henry James Scholar, author of Dreaming My Animal Selve. A Sumptuous Little Book Chris Hallman's paean to the James brothers' intimate 800-letter correspondence is, for the James' family fan and lover of the American intellectual tradition, a surprisingly sumptuous little book. I marvel at the author's fluid movement from section to section, cobbling together a yen to ramble with a debunking of some scurri