Naslov
Caught between American Melancholy and European Masochism: Notes on "Madame de Mauves"

Autori
Jukić, Tatjana

Izvornik
The Henry James Review (0273-0340) 40 (2019), 3; 270-275

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Henry James, the focalizing consciousness, narrative theory, mourning, melancholia, masochism

Sažetak
Taking “Madame de Mauves” (1874) as a specimen story, I argue that Henry James shapes the focalizing consciousness in his fiction around the work of mourning, to be distinguished, however, from melancholy. If that is how James anticipates Freud's distinction between mourning and melancholia, that is also how James mobilizes mourning to describe the transatlantic relationship, with America engaged for melancholy. James’s Europe, on the other hand, especially Paris of the Second Empire, seems to cohere around masochism, suggesting that masochism, unlike melancholy, may be an intellectual destination equally of mourning and of the focalizing consciousness, in narrative, political and psychoanalytic terms.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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