Acting Beautifully - Henry James And The Ethical Aesthetic

Informationen zum Autor Sigi Jöttkandt is a Flanders Research Council Fellow in the Department of English at Ghent University in Belgium. Klappentext 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 Jottkandt 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.

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Sigi Jöttkandt is a Flanders Research Council Fellow in the Department of English at Ghent University in Belgium.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sigi Jottkandt, Sigi Jöttkandt
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.11.2005
• EAN: 9780791465578
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6557-8
• Pagine: 177
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese