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TES, 32, 2002 TES, 32, 2002 understandingof self, other, and culture' (p. 24); then, the impression is of novels which have become merely illustrativeof aprioricriticalobsessions.Henry Jamesand theLanguage of Experience occasionally veers towards crossing the thin line between offering a tellingjuxtaposition of James's corpus and one hermeneutic spin among many, and the disablingapplicationof an ideefixe. The treatmentof IsabelArcheris a case in point. Isabeland Ralph are construed as being a 'powerful testimonial for the need to recognize freedom as a primary requisite for originary artistic production' (p. 85), James 'recognizing in Isabel's struggleforindependence theverystrugglehe feltcharacterizedhis own life'(p. 89). Moreover, Isabel exemplifies 'art under threat' (p. 85) and the exigency of a 'practical wisdom [.. .] intimately associated with a process of disillusionment' (p. 81). What Isabelachieves, an experience the text is seen as urgingon the reader, is an apprehensionof'the consequences of perceptualconstriction'consonant with James's aesthetic position as a whole. Yet, contrary to this view, the novel can be read as deconstructing the organicist theories of character-generated plot and artisticfreedom on which it is nominally predicated.James's plan, inherent in his very conception of the novel, was to dramatizethe material,destructiveimperatives of an inevitably transitive and transient imagination, challenging the validity of coercive categories such as 'freedom' other than in ideal, imaginary, realms. Meissneroverlooksthe notebook entrywhich stipulates,from the outset,that Isabel is to be 'ground in the very mill of the conventional', James going on (as he conspires, metatextually, against readers of whom he was less fond than Meissner supposes) to salivate over 'the art required for making' Isabel's 'delusion natural' (TheNotebooks ofHenry James,ed. by F. O. Matthiessen and Kenneth B. Murdock (New York:Oxford UniversityPress, 1947),P. 15). Despite expressing a belief in the possibility of returning '"consciousness," "subjectivity,"and "experience" to critical discoursewithout either essentializing, reifying, or psychologizing them' (p. 12), Meissner in effect recuperates these mystifying categories. Paradoxically, that 'permeability' of character which this book abstracts as one of James's main goals eludes Meissner when he fails to acknowledgethe limitationsof his own position. If Gadamer'smissionwas to attack '"the tyrannyof [... ] prejudices"that colour our horizon' (p. 94), he firstneeded to considerthe difficultyof postulatingan achromaticworld. UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND PETER RAWLINGS 'Perverse Mind'. EugeneO'Jeill's Struggle with Closure.By BARBARA VOGLINO.Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. I999. i66 pp. ?26. In 1998 Donald Gallup published Eugene O'NeillandHis Eleven-Play Cycle.A Taleof Possessors Self-Dispossessed' (New Haven: Yale University Press), a detailed chronological study of the playwright's abortive attempts to wrestle his epic, everexpanding American chronicle into workable dramatic form. Assembled from innumerable textual fragments, facsimiles, diary entries, and other records of O'Neill's increasinglydesperate search for structure,Gallup's book is an unforgettable insight into what appearsin retrospecta self-constructedmyth of Sisyphus, a testament to how O'Neill saw in his life and art the necessary, potentially exhilaratingfailureof a Nietzschean struggleagainstinsurmountableodds. This Beckettian side to O'Neill's drama is not lost on Barbara Voglino, who traces many continuities between his work and some of the plays of the 'absurd'. Her highlypromisingpremise,thata philosophydenyingthepossibilityof successful understandingof self, other, and culture' (p. 24); then, the impression is of novels which have become merely illustrativeof aprioricriticalobsessions.Henry Jamesand theLanguage of Experience occasionally veers towards crossing the thin line between offering a tellingjuxtaposition of James's corpus and one hermeneutic spin among many, and the disablingapplicationof an ideefixe. The treatmentof IsabelArcheris a case in point. Isabeland Ralph are construed as being a 'powerful testimonial for the need to recognize freedom as a primary requisite for originary artistic production' (p. 85), James 'recognizing in Isabel's struggleforindependence theverystrugglehe feltcharacterizedhis own life'(p. 89). Moreover, Isabel exemplifies 'art under threat' (p. 85) and the exigency of a 'practical wisdom [.. .] intimately associated with a process of disillusionment' (p. 81). What Isabelachieves, an experience the text is seen as urgingon the reader, is an apprehensionof'the consequences of perceptualconstriction'consonant with James's aesthetic position as a whole. Yet, contrary to this view, the novel can be read as deconstructing the organicist theories of character-generated plot and artisticfreedom on which it is nominally predicated...
The Children's Room, which was running short of book space, had shelving added to accommodate new books, as well as another window seat and additional lighting fixtures. New carpeting and a fresh coat of paint have brightened the whole area.
The Library continues its exciting programs for members. Among them is the series, "Conversations on Great Books," where challenging books are discussed. There are certain masterpieces that become more accessible to readers when we are able to join with others in the undertaking. The three evening sessions on a single author or work are conversations, not lectures. Members have read the work and actively participate in the discussion. The series is held in the Members' Room.
The Library awards an annual prize for the best book about New York City. It seems appropriate that New York's oldest library should honor new books that celebrate the city. The members of the book award jury for this year, all of whom are members of the Library, are Barbara Cohen, former proprietor of New York Bound bookshop; Joan K. Davidson, civic leader and a former commissioner of the state's Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Christopher Gray, architectural historian and author of the "Streetscapes" column for The New York Times; Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, executive director of Cityscape Institute; and Pulitzer Prize-winner playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Mr. Gray chaired the panel with great energy.
The Library participated for a second time in the "New York is Book Country" fair with a booth on Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street. Member-authors at the booth greeting passersby and signing books were James Atlas, Barbara Goldsmith and Erica Jong. Howard Stein, the Library's book binder, demonstrated his skills to the interest of many.
In all undertakings concerning the Library, the Board of Trustees has the good fortune to work closely with our librarian, Mark Piel. "At his desk at the base of our tower of books," the Board last year stated in a citation honoring Mr. Piel on his twentieth year of service, "Mark Piel - himself a cultural resource and walking catalogue - has presided with high professionalism and good humor." And we are privileged to work with members of the Library staff.
Some published books by author/members with acknowledgements to the Library in 1998 included: Gotham: A History of New York to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace; Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fortune by Benita Eisler; Beaux Arts New York by David Garrard Lowe; Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse; A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits by Carol K. Mack; and Science in Medieval Islam by Howard Turner.
At the core of all of the Library's activities is the collection itself. In a period when one reads of reduced library purchase funds, it is a matter of pride that our Library has not only maintained but increased its acquisitions budget, enabling us to purchase, for example, the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade editions of French authors, new translations of the Loeb classics and publications in the new Oxford Library of Latin America series. Use of the Internet has strengthened our ordering service. We have been able to get speedier responses from book dealers here and in Europe in ordering current books and searching for out of print titles.
In keeping with the Library's wish to read, the interlibrary loan program was created in 1992 to obtain material not available in our Library, nor any New York Public Library branch. This year Susan O'Brien, Acquisitions Librarian, received 138 requests and was able to fulfill 97% of them. Just as we bring outside resources to our readers we make our own books available to readers all over the country. Ms. O'Brien filled 100 requests from 78 libraries.
We have always welcomed gifts of worthy books. This year donors brought to us some special publications. One is The Atlas of the City of New York by G. W. Bromley & Co. from 1922 to 1931, primarily for the use of realtors. We received four of the five volumes which offer a block by block presentation based on surveys and official plans of real property in Manhattan. These volumes were periodically brought up to date with pasted in overlays indicating new structures. The volume depicting our neighborhood was corrected up to 1952. Another cartographic work given us is Gallery of Maps in the Vatican. We also received the report in eleven volumes on the work of the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis from 1958 to 1971. We are grateful for the donation of the reference set American National Biography given by friends of the Mark Hampton. Additionally, we are especially thankful for the Sound Craft Systems podium given anonymously in response to an appeal in Library Notes.
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