Search for: [Abstract = "James`s urge to complicate and indeed question his own work, to forward and assist its own exhaustion and dissolution, to point to its existential insufficiency and irrelevance, is a critical impulse conspicuously compatible with the Adornian concept. The ends of such a critique is a heightened awareness of the inadequacy of the medium and an assumption of art as necessarily anti\-mimetic and anti\-realistic. As is well known, this tendency informed James`s last writings, and it gave them a distinct, unmistakable flavor."]