Acting beautifully : Henry James and the ethical aesthetic
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Acting beautifully : Henry James and the ethical aesthetic
（SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture）
State University of New York Press, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-171) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
What is the matter with the women in Henry James? In The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and his short story "The Altar of the Dead," one woman returns to a monster of a husband, another dies rather than confront the truth of her lover's engagement, while yet another stakes her all on having a candle lit for a dead lover, only to promptly reject it. Exploring these strange choices, Sigi Jöttkandt argues that the singularity of these acts lies in their ethical nature, and that the ethical principle involved cannot be divorced from the question of aesthetics. She combines close readings of James with suggestive tours through Kantian aesthetics and set theory to uncover the aesthetic underpinning of the Lacanian ethical act, which has been largely overlooked in the current drive to discover a Cartesian origin for the subject as the subject of science.
目次
List of Tables
Preface
1. Portrait of an Act: Representation and Ethics in The Portrait of a Lady
2. "A Poor Girl with Her Rent to Pay": The Wings of the Dove
3. Lighting a Candle to Infinity: "The Altar of the Dead"
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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