Jamesian 的词源

“关于或以James的风格，”1875年指代威廉·James（1842-1910），美国哲学家和实用主义倡导者；1905年指代他的兄弟亨利·James（1843-1916），美国侨居小说家。

[T]he long sentences piling themselves up in elaborate phrase after phrase, the lightning incision, the pauses, the slightly shaking admonitory gesture with its ‘wu-await a little, wait a little, something will come’; blague and benignity and the weight of so many years’ careful, incessant labour of minute observation always there to enrich the talk. I had heard it but seldom, yet it is all unforgettable. […] No man who has not lived on both sides of the Atlantic can well appraise Henry James; his death marks the end of a period. [Ezra Pound, from “Henry James,” Little Review, August 1918]

[T]长句子一个接一个地堆积起来，措辞精致，闪电般的切入，停顿，略微颤抖的劝诫手势，伴随‘wu-稍等一下，稍等一下，会有东西来的’；吹嘘和仁慈，以及多年细致、不断的观察劳动的分量总是在那里丰富谈话。我听得不多，但一切都难以忘怀。[…] 没有在大西洋两岸生活过的人无法很好地评价亨利·詹姆斯；他的去世标志着一个时代的结束。[埃兹拉·庞德，来自《亨利·詹姆斯》，小评论，1918年8月]