about a provocative book:
Andreas: HENRY JAMES and the
EXPANDING HORIZON
"
provocative introduction
. . . suggestive interpretation. . . .
He presents in a convincing way a
compact, logical development of
the thesis . "
'" the reader is
forced to recognize the cogency of
the argument as it is developed,
and to admire the beautiful struc–
ture of the author's thought. He
has given us a well organized guide
to reading James and has stimu–
lated our thinking.... "-Lee E.
Cannon,
Christian Century
" ... notable contribution to our
understanding . .. ... an ex–
tremely sensible interpretation of
The Turn of the Screw.
... "
-
Albert Frank Gegenheimer,
Arizona Quarterly
" ... his findings . . . are after all
downright discoveries." - John
Lucas,
Furioso
" ... he [Andreas] belongs to the
minority that has read at length.
• . . it has nevertheless not pre–
vented Mr. Andreas from coming
nearer to the heart of the novelist's
work than most of the "intuitive"
critics. . .." - Leon Edel,
Amer–
ican Literature
"Mr. Andreas is an amateur critic
of rare perspicuity and judgment.
...
"-Nineteenth-Century Fiction
"His book, as this summary sug–
gests, is unmitigated trash . . .
"The synopses themselves . . . are
almost obscenely inept . . .
"A series of reductive plot synopses
. . . organized into schematic,
slipshod, and meaningless cate–
gories ...
"The height of something is prob–
ably reached in Andreas' mon–
strous exaggeration of Edmund
Wilson's cockeyed reading of
The Turn of the Screw .
..
"Even if Andreas had understood
the plots and paraphrased them
well, he would be no nearer
James's serious concerns ...
"An incompetent and ridiculous
work.
"
-Stanley Edgar Hyman,
Hudson Review
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