Lyall H. Powers's scientific contributions
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Publications (3)
The Complete Notebooks of Henry James opens a clear window into the private workshop of America's master novelist. Leon Edel, James' highly-acclaimed award-winning biographer, and Lyall H. Powers, critic and editor of James' letters to Edith Wharton, have assembled and edited this definitive volume. It contains the nine scribbler-notebooks original...
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... Henry James, like many writers subsequently, would label his era the "age of interviewing," and sat for interviews himself. 15 Modern interviews (talk conducted with the assumed purpose of publication) first appeared in American newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century; author interviews would quickly follow. Interviews mediate conversation across time and space while seemingly promising communicational immediacy; they can support "para-social interactions" (one-way interactions with the illusion of reciprocity and intimacy) between the mediated subject and their public, and have proven immensely popular with readers and publishers across the decades. ...
... Howells persisted: surely James's year at the Harvard Law School where he spurned legal studies and began writing creatively, 'must have' constituted a turning point? 'Let me say at once', James (1987) observes: … that I welcomed the suggestion -for the kindly grace of it, the element of antique charm and bedimmed romance that it placed, straight away, at the disposal of my memory; by which I mean that I wondered whether I mightn't find, on ingenious reflection, that my youth in fact enjoyed that amount of drama. I couldn't, I felt, be sure … (p. ...
