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More than a Line: The Unmistakable Impression of Significance and the Dashes of Henry James.(Critical Essay)

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From: Philological Quarterly
Date: 19980622
Author:BOREN, MARK EDELMAN

This article examines the significance of author Henry James' use of underlining and dashes in his private and public writings. James' disruptions and disjunctures in his texts are viewed as indicative of James' training as a visual artist, his need to connect ideas, and his views on communication and the construction of language.

Henry James's authorial signature clearly is bound to the undecidability in the stylistics of his published prose. His personal notebooks, however, reveal that the horizontal line (in the form of dashes and underlining) is how this former visual artist notes ...

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