THE IMAGE OF IDENTITY IN HENRY JAMES’ NOVEL “THE WINGS OF DOVE”
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Henry James, “The wings of Dove”, main character, theme, structure, psyche, psychological realism, inner, portray.Abstract
Henry James is one of the authors who made a significant contribution to the development of American Realism, which has not lost its importance in American literature since the 19th century, and is crucial even in the 20th century and serves as the foundation stone of Psychological Realism. “The wings of Dove ” is a 1902 novel by Henry James. It tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. Some of these people befriend Milly with honourable motives, while others are more self-interested.
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James, Henry (2015) [1914] "Notes of a Son and Brother". Autobiographies. The Library of America. ISBN 9788026836063. Retrieved 16 May 2023. None the less did she in fact cling to consciousness; death, at the last, was dreadful to her; she would have given anything to live - and the image of this, which was long to remain with me, appeared so of the essence of tragedy that I was in the far-off aftertime to seek to lay the ghost by wrapping it, a particular occasion aiding, in the beauty and dignity of art.
Flannery, Denis (2 March 2017) [2000]. Henry James: A Certain Illusion. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781351930918. Retrieved 16 May 2023. [...] images of wealth and purity are present in Psalm 68:13: Though ye have lien among the pots yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold [...]
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