Simon J. James
List of John Benjamins publications in which Simon J. James is involved.
Articles
2022 Material matters: The surfaces of realist fiction Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.), pp. 233–270 | Article
The representation of objects is one of the guarantors of a particular kind of literary text being characterized as realist. The mimesis of objects, possessions, and interiors, marveled at by Henry James when writing on Honoré de Balzac, and deplored by Virginia Woolf when decrying Arnold… read more
2022 Chapter 2. Referential pathways: Objects and bodies Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.) | Section header