{"id":3506,"date":"2009-10-01T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2009-10-01T16:12:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:12:14","slug":"on-ghosts-and-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/01\/on-ghosts-and-realism\/","title":{"rendered":"On Ghosts and Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Further to Bob’s post earlier today:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some more Frye\u00a0on ghosts, from \u201cHenry James and the Comedy of the Occult<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n

Such a story as The Sacred Fount<\/a><\/em> brings the relation of reality and realism into sharp confrontation: either there is some hidden reality that the narrator\u2019s fantasies point to, however vaguely and inaccurately, or there is no discernible reason for setting them forth at all.\u00a0 This principle, which runs through all of James\u2019s work, gives the occult stories a particular significance.\u00a0 A ghostly world challenges us with the existence of a reality beyond realism which still may not be identifiable as real.<\/p>\n

He turned once again to his ghost story [The Sense of the Past<\/a><\/em>] just before he died, because in its fantasy he saw the reality he had sought as an artist, whereas the realism in the social manners of his time had left him with a sense of total illusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Further to Bob’s post earlier today:\u00a0 Some more Frye\u00a0on ghosts, from \u201cHenry James and the Comedy of the Occult\u201d: Such a story as The Sacred Fount brings the relation of reality and realism into sharp confrontation: either there is some hidden reality that the narrator\u2019s fantasies point to, however vaguely and inaccurately, or there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-criticism"],"yoast_head":"\nOn Ghosts and Realism - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/01\/on-ghosts-and-realism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On Ghosts and Realism - 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