Your link to your review of Madame Bovary's Ovaries isn't working -- and I missed that one! I'd like to read it.
Literary criticism has a life of its own -- I've known that ever since we read a half dozen essays (in high school) on The Turn of the Screw. Is the governess nuts? Are Miles and Douglas the same person? And so forth. God only knows if Henry James intended a tenth of this brouhaha. Maybe he just wrote an ambiguous story out of laziness.
FWIW, there's an excellent collection of essays appended to the original work for another great romance, Conrad's Heart of Darkness. (What -- you didn't realize that was a romance?) Oh, I'm wicked. But it really is a great collection.
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Date: 2006-03-27 09:50 pm (UTC)Literary criticism has a life of its own -- I've known that ever since we read a half dozen essays (in high school) on The Turn of the Screw. Is the governess nuts? Are Miles and Douglas the same person? And so forth. God only knows if Henry James intended a tenth of this brouhaha. Maybe he just wrote an ambiguous story out of laziness.
FWIW, there's an excellent collection of essays appended to the original work for another great romance, Conrad's Heart of Darkness. (What -- you didn't realize that was a romance?) Oh, I'm wicked. But it really is a great collection.
Doug