Cornelius Crowley
Professeur de civilisation britannique, études irlandaises. Directeur de l'UFR d'études Anglo-Américaines à l'université Paris X-Nanterre.
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Cornelius Crowley
Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady
The first paragraph of James's The Portrait of a Lady instructs us that what follows is a « simple history ». The aim of the present study is to persuade the reader to accept the narrator's proposition. For James, the art of fiction is the...