 The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million— a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced, or is still piercable, in its vast front, by the need of the individual vision and by the...  Stories and Portraits of the Self - 282 psl.redagavo - 2007 - 332 psl.Ribota peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Henry James, James Edwin Miller - 1972 - 394 psl.
...window, 65; an identity as marked as a window frame, 66-67; Balzac's endless series of windows, 75; the house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, 312-14 wonder (see also the extraordinary, fairy tale, ghost story) , the appeal to wonder, 110-14... | |
 | David E. Stannard - 1980 - 208 psl.
...11 But the poets continued to disagree. In his preface to The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James wrote: The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million. ... at each of them stands a figure with a pair of eyes, or at least with a field-glass, which forms,... | |
 | Wladimir Krysinski - 1981 - 472 psl.
...pour justifier la démarche romanesque, cette construction infinie et toujours renouvelée. Ainsi : The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million — a number of possible windows,. . . The spreading field, the human scene, is the « choice of subject », the pierced aperture, either... | |
 | Barbara Fisher - 1986 - 262 psl.
...'to range through all the differences of the individual relation to its general subject-matter. Thus The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million — . . . The spreading field, the human scene, is the 'choice of subject'; the pierced aperture, either... | |
 | Pamela Schirmeister - 1990 - 254 psl.
...shifts his metaphor from the organic to the constructed, from that which grows to that which is built: The house of fiction has in short not one window,...number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather. . . . These apertures, of dissimilar shape and size, hang so, all together, over the human scene that... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - 1990 - 340 psl.
...Prefaces, that which deals with the "house of fiction" (Preface to The Portrait of a Lady, p. 46). "The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million. . . ." It has been pointed out elsewhere that James's stress on the individuality of the author's vision,... | |
 | Adam Zachary Newton - 1995 - 366 psl.
...may be, if it has helped me to live, to feel that I am and what I am? Charles Baudelaire, "Windows" The house of fiction has in short not one window but a million. . . . They are but windows at the best, mere holes in a dead wall, disconnected, perched aloft; they... | |
 | Mary Warner Blanchard - 1998 - 332 psl.
...imagine a room as a text. The metaphor is familiar. Henry James used it, linking houses to novels. "The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million," he wrote, for he believed that houses and rooms become multiple frames for his literary portraits.... | |
 | Laura Hinton - 1999 - 304 psl.
...freedom collide with images of limitation and voyeuristic, panopticon-like, distortion and control: The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million—a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced,... | |
 | Stefanie Hofmann - 2000 - 370 psl.
...fastened, and though he had keys in his pocket he had a conviction that none of them would fit. (TP: 116) '"The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million," - mit diesen Worten rollt Henry James in seinem berühmten "Preface to The Portrait of a Lady", das... | |
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