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James's The Beast in the Jungle.

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20040922
Author:Benoit, Raymond

It is surprising that D. H. Lawrence did not include Henry James in his critical book, Studies in Classic American Literature. Certainly Lawrence's stated orientation is thoroughly Jamesian: "But we must repeat: KNOWING and BEING are opposite, antagonistic states. The more you know, exactly, the less you are. The more you are, in being, the less you know. [...] Knowing, then, is the slow death of being. Man has his epochs of being, his epochs of knowing. It will always be a great oscillation. The goal is to know how not-to-know" (121)--emphatically and exactly the goal achieved by ...

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