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Summary. A minor masterpiece, The Aspern Papers is perhaps not so familiar to nonaficionados of James as “The Beast in the Jungle” or The Turn of the Screw. Combining intrigue, seduction, and...
Summary. The Aspern Papers begins with an unnamed researcher who is obsessed with an American poet named Jeffrey Aspern. Aspern died many decades before, and the researcher is trying to find more poetry and writings from the poet that have never been published.
Jan 11, 2019 · The story is set in Venice, and begins with the evocation of the 19 th-centuy poet Jeffrey Aspern, who is seen, Shelley-like, washing up dead on an immaculately-kept shore and being burned as his young lover clutches a folded sheaf of letters to her bosom. The aforementioned papers, you see.
May 8, 2022 · Analysis of Henry James’s The Aspern Papers. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on May 8, 2022. One of the most enduringly popular of Henry James ’s shorter fictions, The Aspern Papers was first published in serial form in the American journal Atlantic from March to May 1888. Its central theme concerns the attempt by the story’s anonymous narrator—an ...
Published first in 1888 and revised for Henry James's Novels and Tales 20 years later, The Aspern Papers is a novella with a suspenseful plot, characters who embody qualities inherent in James's greatest fiction, and a first-person narrative form.
The Aspern Papers study guide contains a biography of Henry James, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. More books than SparkNotes.
In “The Aspern Papers,” an unnamed American editor rents a room in Venice in the home of Juliana Bordereau, the elderly mistress of Jeffrey Aspern, a deceased Romantic poet, in order to procure from her the poet’s papers. Bordereau, a stingy, domineering woman, lives with her timid middle-aged niece, Tina.
