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Americans in the Old World: the test by Europe (the case of Henry James’ prose)

Rarenko Mariya Borisovna

PhD in Philology, Leading Research Fellow of Linguistics Department, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences (INION) of the Rus-sian Academy of Sciences, Russia, Moscow, rarenco@rambler.ru

Abstract

The paper focuses on the travel technique widely used in various national litera-tures. The purpose of this work is to show, on the case of two novelettes and two novels by H. James, the American writer of the late 19th– early 20th centuries, the possibilities of travel in revealing the theme of “confrontation” between the Old World and the New World.

Keywords

H. James; travel technique; semiotics of space; fiction; American literature; national literature.

For citing: Rarenko M.B. (2025) Americans in the Old World: the test by Europe (the case of Henry James’ prose). Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow. INION RAN.Vol. 1 (61). pp. 52-62. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2025.01.04

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