Partial Portraits of James the Traveller

The aim of the article is to offer a less solemn and less frontal perspective on the Jamesian opus by way of his travel writing, a practice inevitably seasonal and occasional: the jottings of a tourist or traveller. There emerges a renewed sense of the Jamesian relation to the world, to time and to...

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Main Author: Cornelius Crowley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Clermont Auvergne 2020-01-01
Series:Viatica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/viatica/1138
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Summary:The aim of the article is to offer a less solemn and less frontal perspective on the Jamesian opus by way of his travel writing, a practice inevitably seasonal and occasional: the jottings of a tourist or traveller. There emerges a renewed sense of the Jamesian relation to the world, to time and to place, in terms of the responsiveness to things seen. Experience is an affair of circumstance and chance, art an adjustment to and an honouring in words of the occasionality of life, travel in time.
ISSN:2275-0827