 | Steven Watts - History - 1989 - 412 pages
...— and then it flows back again. Isabel Archer: I don't agree with you. I think just the opposite. I don't know whether I succeed in expressing myself,...measure of me; everything's on the contrary a limit, a harrier, and a perfectly arbitrary one. HENRY JAMES Portrait of a I.ady All visible objects, man, are... | |
 | Emory Elliott - History - 1988 - 1312 pages
...Furope. The heroine of The Portrait of a Lady (1880-81) will prove tragically naive in her faith that "nothing that belongs to me is any measure of me;...limit, a barrier, and a perfectly arbitrary one"; but the Emersonian romanticism of Isabel Areher, her dream of a transcendent self, is finally more... | |
 | Miles Orvell - Social Science - 1989 - 412 pages
...contrary opinion, which will set in motion the drama of the story: "I don't agree with you. I think just the other way. I don't know whether I succeed...me. Nothing that belongs to me is any measure of me; every thing's on the contrary a limit, a barrier, and a perfectly arbitrary one."75 Isabel here announces... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 624 pages
...agree with you. I think just the other way. 1 don't know whether I succeed in expressing myself, but 1 know that nothing else expresses me. Nothing that...a limit, a barrier, and a perfectly arbitrary one. . . . My clothes may express the dressmaker, but they don't express me. To begin with it's not my own... | |
 | Joel Porte - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 180 pages
...new. Isabel's failure of memory leads to expressions of self that leave her neither here nor there: "'I don't know whether I succeed in expressing myself, but I know that nothing else expresses me' " (Chap. 19). As a critic of optimistic individualism (self-reliance), James implies that his heroine's... | |
 | Emory Elliott - Education - 1991 - 940 pages
...for a sense of self that excludes possessions. "Nothing that belongs to me," she tells Madame Merle, "is any measure of me; everything's on the contrary...limit, a barrier, and a perfectly arbitrary one." Isabel is particularly indifferent to houses and dress. Madame Merle disagrees. "What shall we call... | |
 | T. J. Jackson Lears - History - 1994 - 397 pages
...accompany her friend into this bold analysis of the human personality." I don't agree with you. I think just the other way. I don't know whether I succeed...which, as you say, I choose to wear, don't express me; and heaven forbid they should!66 As American society became more urban, more "European," increasing... | |
 | Raymond Carney - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 340 pages
...that opposites sway about a trembling center of balance.... We must balance as we go. - DH Lawrence' I don't know whether I succeed in expressing myself,...me. Nothing that belongs to me is any measure of me; on the contrary, it's a limit, a barrier, and a perfectly arbitrary one. Certainly, the clothes which,... | |
 | Donald Pizer - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 310 pages
...redolent, as critics have often noted, of American transcendentalism: "I don't agree with you. ... I think just the other way. I don't know whether I succeed...me. Nothing that belongs to me is any measure of me; on the contrary, it's a limit, a barrier, and a perfectly arbitrary one. Certainly, the clothes which,... | |
 | Henry James - Fiction - 1996 - 532 pages
...accompany her friend into this bold analysis of the human personality. 'I don't agree with you. I think just the other way. I don't know whether I succeed...which, as you say, I choose to wear, don't express me; and heaven forbid they should!' 'You dress very well,' Madame Merle lightly interposed. 'Possibly,... | |
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I don't agree with you. I think just the other way. I don't know whether I succeed in expressing myself, but I know that nothing else expresses me. Nothing that belongs to me is any measure of me; everything's on the contrary a limit, a barrier, and a... 
