Ghostly Transmissions in the Atmosphere of Henry James’s “The Grand Canal”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21671455 |
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| Authors | Henry Carmines (Université de Bordeaux, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sillages critiques (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1272-3819 • E-ISSN: 1969-6302 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/150rr |
| OpenAlex | W4415698476 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Starting from a remark made by Henry James about how the past seems to leave behind an atmosphere that does not pass through time, this article focuses on James’s travel essay “The Grand Canal” to interrogate the possibility of alternative modes of time that do not always flow from one moment to the next. We can perhaps become attuned to these other possibilities of time or experience through the very estrangement that James’s travel writing performs on itself and on its readers. In suggesting there may be forms of time that inhere in places and do not pass in the ordinary way, we are led to conceive of a kind of place not easily separable from the experiencing self nor from the always arriving strangers that coexist with us, and, with us, constitute the places that James’s writing allows us to fleetingly inhabit
Deep time · Phenomenon · Short Stories in Global Literature · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Travel Writing and Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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