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- Title
"Henry would never know he hadn't written it himself": The Implications of "Dictation" for Jamesian Style.
- Authors
Layne, Bethany
- Abstract
The article talks about Cynthia Ozicks' short story "Dictation" which is a biographical fiction about English novelist Henry James and its impact on James' late literary style. Topics include the role played by the transition from handwriting to speech in intensifying characteristics that were already nascent in James' work of the 1890s, how the shift to dictation gave rise to extemporaneous thinking, and the expansiveness and elaboration produced that is signatory of James' later style.
- Subjects
DICTATION (Book); OZICK, Cynthia, 1928-; ENGLISH biographical fiction; JAMES, Henry, 1843-1916; LITERARY characters; TRANSITION (Rhetoric)
- Publication
Henry James Review, 2014, Vol 35, Issue 3, p248
- ISSN
0273-0340
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hjr.2014.0039