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" The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the general anglo-saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big blatant Bayadere of Journalism, of the newspaper and the picture (above all) magazine; who keeps screaming "Look at me, I am the thing,... "
Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature: Portraits of the Woman Artist - Page 157
by Deborah Barker - 2000 - 258 pages
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Stories of Writers and Artists

Henry James - Short stories - 1903 - 362 pages
...primary root of corruption: as he had remarked to \^ __ • / Howells some years before, "The faculty of attention has utterly ; vanished from the general...anglo-saxon mind, extinguished at its/ [ source by the_±>ig-~blata.rit^RayaHprp of. Journalism." Nor did he see it anywhere evident that "my view of...
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Bulletin, Issues 18-30

Engineering - 1917 - 594 pages
...intellectual result of this Henry James summed up 'in a letter to Howells some twenty years airo. "The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the general...mind, extinguished at its source by the big, blatant Bayadere of journalism of the newspapers and the picture magazine, who keeps screaming, Tjook at me,...
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The Letters of Henry James, Volume 1

Henry James - Literary Collections - 1920 - 490 pages
...vanished from the general anglo-saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big blatant Bayadere of Journalism, of the newspaper and the picture (above...thing, and I only, the thing that will keep you in relation with me all the time without your having to attend one minute of the time." If you are moved...
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The Letters of Henry James, Volume 1

Henry James - Authors - 1920 - 482 pages
...decent is pure disinterested, unsupported, unrewarded heroism; but that's in the day's work. The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the general...mind, extinguished at its source by the big blatant Bayadere of Journalism, of the newspaper and the picture (above all) magazine; who keeps screaming...
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Catholic World, Volume 111

1920 - 942 pages
...that the faculty of attention has vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind. He pictures the newspaper, the magazine, "who keeps screaming, 'Look at me, I am the thing, and I only the thing!' " He insists that, for the people, the fineness of art does not exist. To love an imitation of art...
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The Development of the American Short Story: An Historical Survey

Fred Lewis Pattee - American fiction - 1923 - 410 pages
...alternative— journalism. But journalism was to James anathema. To Howells he wrote in 1902: The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the general...mind, extinguished at its source by the big blatant Bayadere of Journalism, of the newspaper and the picture (above all) magazine; who keeps screaming:...
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The Development of the American Short Story: An Historical Survey

Fred Lewis Pattee - American fiction - 1923 - 408 pages
...utterly vanished from the general AngloSaxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big blatant Bayad&re of Journalism, of the newspaper and the picture (above all) magazine; who keeps screaming: "Look at me! / am the thing, and I only, the thing that will keep you in relation with me all the time without your...
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The School of Hawthorne

Richard H. Brodhead - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 267 pages
...decent is pure disinterested, unsupported, unrewarded heroism; but that's in the day's work. The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the general...(above all) magazine; who keeps screaming "Look at me, 1 am the thing, and I only, the thing that will keep you in relation with me all the time without your...
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Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells

Michael Anesko - Literary Collections - 1997 - 511 pages
...decent is pure disinterested, unsupported unrewarded heroism; but that's in the day's work. The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the general...mind, extinguished at its source by the big blatant Bayadere 4 of Journalism, of the newspaper & the picture (above all) magazine; who keeps screaming...
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Henry James: A Life in Letters

Henry James - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 708 pages
...anglosaxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big blatant Bayadere of Journalism, of the newspaper & the picture (above all) magazine; who keeps screaming "Look at me, I am the thing, & I only, the thing that will keep you in relation with me all the time without your having to attend...
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