James Duban
Biographic Data
| ID | 1062944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Duban |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Duban |
| SIGNATURE | DUBAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Missing the Boat
Might the pre-revolutionary setting of Boston, as depicted in Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” relate to high-society Paris in James’s The Ambassadors? What do the nepotistic outlooks of Robin Molineux and Lambert Strether have in common? How does the narrative technique of Hawthorne’s tale anticipate the artistry of one of James’s most complex narratives, and in what manner does James go beyond his predecessor in refining the reflector-…
Existential Revision in Philip Roth's The Breast
Why might Philip Roth, in 1980, have published a revised edition of The Breast (1972), and what do many of his emendations have to do with recent scholarly disclosure of the existential concerns of the original narrative? How, moreover, in the second edition, does de facto co-authored narrative technique pertain to Sartre's tenet that consciousness arises as an upsurge of nothingness amid the dross substance of non-reflective Being? I conclude th…
Level Dead-Reckoning”
Visible Objects of Reverence
A Phenomenal “Occurrence” at Owl Creek Bridge
Research Article| March 01 2005 A Phenomenal “Occurrence” at Owl Creek Bridge: The Presence of Emanuel Swedenborg and Henry James, Sr. James Duban; James Duban University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Solomon Sallfors Solomon Sallfors University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 33–38. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-42.3.33 …
Chaucerian Humor in Moby-Dick
John Walker and the Early Edwardsianism of Henry James, Sr
The Craft of Faith
Herman Melville's Religious Journey
Tracing Melville's spiritual torment and growth over the course of his lifetime, Walter Donald Kring provides a fresh look at this great writer and shows how his work was influenced by his mid-life rejection and later acceptance of religion. Citing examples from famous and lesser-known works, Kring deftly draws comparisons between Melville's changing views and those expressed by his characters
The Father
A biography of the passionate, contradictory father of William, Henry and Alice James. The author counters the popular view - a view that the James family perpetuated - that Henry James Sr was a benignant man who devoted himself to the good of his children, preached tolerance, and practised self-effacement. Instead, he shows us a man who developed a convoluted personal philosophy to account for his own feelings of pain and guilt, his conviction o…
Transatlantic Counterparts
The Commodious "Life-Preserver" in Melville's The Confidence-Man
A the conclusion of Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man the Cosmopolitan plays upon the credulity of an old man who claims to trust in divine providence in the matter of life's fortune but who, nevertheless, purchases traveler's patent lock and money-belt from vendor. Still unsatisfied, moreover, with his personal welfare aboard steamboat, the old man look[s] wistfully all around, first on the stools and settees, and then on the carpet for for s…
From Emerson to Edwards
The date was 19 July 1859; the occasion, the commencement address at the Harvard Divinity School. Twenty-one years earlier, as Henry Whitney Bellows well knew, Ralph Waldo Emerson had there delivered the famous Divinity School Address, which offended the Unitarian faculty by berating historical Christianity, by advancing that the moral and religious sentiments were synonymous, and by claiming that intuitive apprehension of these sentiments could …
Conscience and Consciousness
IN a college essay submitted on 19 May 1837, young Henry David Thoreau wrote, fear of displeasing the world ought not, in the least, to influence my actions; were it otherwise the principal avenue to reform would be closed.1 Thoreau followed this dictum when in 1846 he was jailed for refusing to pay a poll tax destined to support American aggression against Mexico and, to his mind, the extension of slavery into the American Southwest. Thoreau's r…
Thoreau, Garrison, and Dymond
S CHOLARS of Thoreau's Resistance to Government 0( 849; originally a lecture [I 848] and later published as Civil Disobedience [i 866]) have looked backward and forward in the history of ideas to identify the essay's intellectual predecessors and to establish its subsequent influence. As existing studies show, Resistance to Government helped either to shape or to refine the outlooks of such well-known thinkers as Count Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi…
Melville's Major Fiction
Melville's Major Fiction
shown to characterize Melville's fiction. 4 Still, as Redburn says, each generation must write its own guidebooks.Given the wealth of scholarship already devoted to every phase of Melville's literary genius, a new guidebook is here offered mainly for those uncharted political, theological, and philosophical byways of his longer narratives.In fact, the dramatic impact of these works hinges, in large degree, on such previously overlooked or underem…
"A Pantomime of Action"
"The Sceptical Context of Hawthorne's "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
Melville's Major Fiction
shown to characterize Melville's fiction. 4 Still, as Redburn says, each generation must write its own guidebooks.Given the wealth of scholarship already devoted to every phase of Melville's literary genius, a new guidebook is here offered mainly for those uncharted political, theological, and philosophical byways of his longer narratives.In fact, the dramatic impact of these works hinges, in large degree, on such previously overlooked or underem…
Thoreau, Garrison, and Dymond
S CHOLARS of Thoreau's Resistance to Government 0( 849; originally a lecture [I 848] and later published as Civil Disobedience [i 866]) have looked backward and forward in the history of ideas to identify the essay's intellectual predecessors and to establish its subsequent influence. As existing studies show, Resistance to Government helped either to shape or to refine the outlooks of such well-known thinkers as Count Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi…
"The Sceptical Context of Hawthorne's "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
"A Pantomime of Action"
Melville's Major Fiction
Melville's Major Fiction
shown to characterize Melville's fiction. 4 Still, as Redburn says, each generation must write its own guidebooks.Given the wealth of scholarship already devoted to every phase of Melville's literary genius, a new guidebook is here offered mainly for those uncharted political, theological, and philosophical byways of his longer narratives.In fact, the dramatic impact of these works hinges, in large degree, on such previously overlooked or underem…
Thoreau, Garrison, and Dymond
S CHOLARS of Thoreau's Resistance to Government 0( 849; originally a lecture [I 848] and later published as Civil Disobedience [i 866]) have looked backward and forward in the history of ideas to identify the essay's intellectual predecessors and to establish its subsequent influence. As existing studies show, Resistance to Government helped either to shape or to refine the outlooks of such well-known thinkers as Count Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi…
Conscience and Consciousness
IN a college essay submitted on 19 May 1837, young Henry David Thoreau wrote, fear of displeasing the world ought not, in the least, to influence my actions; were it otherwise the principal avenue to reform would be closed.1 Thoreau followed this dictum when in 1846 he was jailed for refusing to pay a poll tax destined to support American aggression against Mexico and, to his mind, the extension of slavery into the American Southwest. Thoreau's r…
From Emerson to Edwards
The date was 19 July 1859; the occasion, the commencement address at the Harvard Divinity School. Twenty-one years earlier, as Henry Whitney Bellows well knew, Ralph Waldo Emerson had there delivered the famous Divinity School Address, which offended the Unitarian faculty by berating historical Christianity, by advancing that the moral and religious sentiments were synonymous, and by claiming that intuitive apprehension of these sentiments could …
The Commodious "Life-Preserver" in Melville's The Confidence-Man
A the conclusion of Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man the Cosmopolitan plays upon the credulity of an old man who claims to trust in divine providence in the matter of life's fortune but who, nevertheless, purchases traveler's patent lock and money-belt from vendor. Still unsatisfied, moreover, with his personal welfare aboard steamboat, the old man look[s] wistfully all around, first on the stools and settees, and then on the carpet for for s…
Transatlantic Counterparts
The Father
A biography of the passionate, contradictory father of William, Henry and Alice James. The author counters the popular view - a view that the James family perpetuated - that Henry James Sr was a benignant man who devoted himself to the good of his children, preached tolerance, and practised self-effacement. Instead, he shows us a man who developed a convoluted personal philosophy to account for his own feelings of pain and guilt, his conviction o…
Herman Melville's Religious Journey
Tracing Melville's spiritual torment and growth over the course of his lifetime, Walter Donald Kring provides a fresh look at this great writer and shows how his work was influenced by his mid-life rejection and later acceptance of religion. Citing examples from famous and lesser-known works, Kring deftly draws comparisons between Melville's changing views and those expressed by his characters
The Craft of Faith
John Walker and the Early Edwardsianism of Henry James, Sr
Chaucerian Humor in Moby-Dick
A Phenomenal “Occurrence” at Owl Creek Bridge
Research Article| March 01 2005 A Phenomenal “Occurrence” at Owl Creek Bridge: The Presence of Emanuel Swedenborg and Henry James, Sr. James Duban; James Duban University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Solomon Sallfors Solomon Sallfors University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 33–38. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-42.3.33 …
Visible Objects of Reverence
Level Dead-Reckoning”
Existential Revision in Philip Roth's The Breast
Why might Philip Roth, in 1980, have published a revised edition of The Breast (1972), and what do many of his emendations have to do with recent scholarly disclosure of the existential concerns of the original narrative? How, moreover, in the second edition, does de facto co-authored narrative technique pertain to Sartre's tenet that consciousness arises as an upsurge of nothingness amid the dross substance of non-reflective Being? I conclude th…
Missing the Boat
Might the pre-revolutionary setting of Boston, as depicted in Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” relate to high-society Paris in James’s The Ambassadors? What do the nepotistic outlooks of Robin Molineux and Lambert Strether have in common? How does the narrative technique of Hawthorne’s tale anticipate the artistry of one of James’s most complex narratives, and in what manner does James go beyond his predecessor in refining the reflector-…
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