Studies in the Novel, September 22nd, 2000
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Henry James, his critics have always agreed, is particularly interested in form. Literary theory, however, has become highly suspicious of formalist analysis, characterizing it as universalizing, ahistorical, and thus politically impotent. To avoid the charge of irrelevance, critics must, we are told, understand form as ideologically determined, engage genuine political questions, and embrace history, not philosophy. Julie Rivkin, in her recent Derridean reading of James entitled False Positions, acknowledges the force of these types of challenges to formalism, but defends her approach an...
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