Biblical Archetypes of Settings in the Portrait of a Lady

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10.2991/assehr.k.191217.198How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Portrait of a Lady, Biblical archetypes, Jamesian salvation, rebirth

Abstract

The American writer Henry James (1843–1916), is generally considered the master of the psychological realistic novels during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Portrait of a Lady is universally acknowledged as his masterpiece during his early writing career. It has aroused much attention and received criticism in literary circle ever since its publication in 1881. Many critics have adopted various methods of criticism to figure out their own profound interpretations of The Portrait. Yet few critics have employed the archetypal method to analyze it, especially its setting. This thesis just attempts to use Frye’s archetypal criticism to probe into the Biblical archetypes in the light and dark settings in The Portrait. Therefore, archetypal analysis, especially the Biblical archetypes, might be quite a helpful method to discover the theme of the novel and to reveal Henry James” religious view and his unique Jamesian salvation.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ping Chen
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/14
TI  - Biblical Archetypes of Settings in the Portrait of a Lady
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 594
EP  - 596
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.198
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.198
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