An Introduction to Reading Henry James

Lynda Zwinger
Fall 2016
TUESDAYS |  
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
September 27 - December 13, 2016. No class on October 25 and November 22.
Course Format: Hybrid
Location: Main Campus
Tuition: $195

In this class we will begin to see for ourselves what James contributed to the art to which he devoted his entire life. The course will include lectures on the history and form of the English and American novel, Henry James’s life and times, selected passages from James’s prefaces to the famous New York edition, and an introduction to foundational formal and theoretical concepts we will need for our exploration. James wrote for many kinds of readers: those looking for a good story, his fellow artists, and for his ideal reader—who, not surprisingly, bears an extremely close resemblance to James himself. He provides instructions for each level of reading embedded within each tale and novel, and we will learn to find them.

Required Reading

James, Henry. The American. Penguin Classics, 1981. ISBN-13: 978-0140390827.

—. The Europeans: A Sketch. Eds. Philip Horne and Andrew Taylor. Penguin Classics, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0141441405.

—. Selected Tales. Penguin Classics, 2001. ISBN-13: 978-0140436945.

—. The Turn of the Screw. 2nd ed. W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. ISBN-13: 978-0393959048.

—. The Portrait of a Lady. 2nd ed. W.W. Norton & Co., 1995. ISBN-13: 978-0393966466.

—. The Wings of the Dove. Penguin Classics, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0141441283.

Meet Your Instructor

Lynda Zwinger
Professor

Department of English

LYNDA ZWINGER is Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Affiliated Faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, and Editor of Arizona Quarterly at the University of Arizona. She specializes in the novel and late-19th- to early-20th-century American literature. Her most recent book is Telling in Henry James: The Web of Experience and the Forms of Reality.

Ted and Shirley Taubeneck Superior Teaching Award 2015

Location

POETRY CENTER
Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States

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