At
the awkward age of sixteen years, where we barely know ourselves, much less who we will be in several years time, a sizeable amount is spent so we can go to faraway lands, away from most of the people we know, immersing ourselves in a completely foreign culture.
Ready, Jet Set, Goal
In terms of the cultural zeitgeist, awkwardness has replaced irony as the default sensibility, argued Elif Batuman in a New Yorker essay titled "
The Awkward Age" in September 2014.
Awkwardness, weirdness steal the Republican stage
At
the awkward age of thirteen, Arnold's turn came to accept a page of newspaper from his teacher and write about anything in it that interested him.
Total Recall
well, detour ("philosophical memoir" wouldn't be far off the mark), we encounter this story: Cappello has been trying to read Henry James's
The Awkward Age. "[L]onging to be seduced by awkwardness," she beats her way through the novel's thickets of circumlocution.
Detour de force
"Unworked and Unavowable: Community in
The Awkward Age," exploring "the relation of speech-acts to community" (84), develops Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of La communaute desoeuvree, which Miller translates as the "unworked" community, to read the catachrestic aspect of language in
The Awkward Age.
Miller, J. Hillis. Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James
Nanda Brookenham's marriage prospects, in
The Awkward Age, are severely restricted by the sexual knowledge to which she has been prematurely exposed according the Victorian mores of sexuality operative within the novel's fictive cadre.
J. Hillis Miller 2005: Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James
Tippett--I do indeed know that the girl in the telegraph booth was from "In The Cage," and thanks for reminding us all that
The Awkward Age, written at the end of this period, was another adolescent character study in which James seemed to try an end-run around the stage by presenting a play between book covers.
Reply to critics
Among her numerous achievements is to embody, seemingly without effort, what Henry James called "
the awkward age," that defining cusp between innocence and experience capable of impaling the unwary on emotions for which they don't fully possess the words.
The Sugar Syndrome
This Season One DVD contains all 25 episodes as Angry Kid gets to grip with life at
the awkward age between childhood and becoming a teenager.
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95), 'modern morbidity' (in
The Awkward Age) is 'like a publisher's blurb' (p.
Henry James and Modern Moral Life
At
the awkward age of 17, I had bought the line that good manners, high SAT scores, and a small dress size would assure a lifetime's worth of happiness.
You've Got a Long Way to Go, Baby
When she returns to Maisie and
The Awkward Age, where 'the duplications and imitations are not a problem but the very source of meaning and identity' (p.
False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fiction
The whole world confirms to them that they are indeed poor, regrettably laboring through what is called "
the awkward age." It is no wonder that teenagers like to run in packs, that they surround themselves with people as gawky and unformed as themselves.
How can this be?
In chapter three, the twin focus is on the preface's `delineation of the conflict between the logic of history and the logic of fiction' in relation to The Aspern Papers and
The Awkward Age. For The Aspern Papers, `recovering the historic narrative in the preface and recovering it in the fiction establishes by implication the contrast between historic and aesthetic structures of reality'.
The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader
Where chapters are given to six novels, while
The Awkward Age, The Ambassadors, 'The Turn of the Screw', and 'In the Cage' are included in the discussion, it may seem carping to complain about what is not there.
Henry James and the Real Thing: A Modern Reader's Guide