L’Inquiétante modernité de The Sacred Fount

Just before writing The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, James wrote The Sacred Fount, and attempted to write a novel entitled The Sense of the Past, works in which an ambitious attempt to unearth the “source” of his writing and the mimetic origin of thought came to a head...

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spelling cairn-RFEA_150_0009RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2017-1-page-9?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.150.0009 L’Inquiétante modernité de The Sacred Fount Anker, Richard2017 double contrainteénonciationHenry JamesmimesissacrificeThe Sacred FountUnheimlichfre Revue française d’études américaines | 150 | 1 | 2017-07-01 | p. 9-25 | 0397-7870 RFEA_15090 Just before writing The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, James wrote The Sacred Fount, and attempted to write a novel entitled The Sense of the Past, works in which an ambitious attempt to unearth the “source” of his writing and the mimetic origin of thought came to a head. The author’s apparent repudiation of the first, the failure to complete the latter, and the immense critical success which crowned his return to the “realist” novel, have all contributed to nearly obliterate, a century of (mis-)reading later, the wit and the analytical insight contained in what in many regards is James’s most “modern” novel, as well as the most (eccentrically) central novel of his œuvre as a whole. This paper attempts to throw light on the mimetic logic underwriting this paradoxically eccentric center, on the apocryphal nature of it – its “im-posture” as a work of representation –, and on the inherently impious, or traitorous, manner of being of this work in the eyes of the Master.Cairn free access
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topic double contrainte
énonciation
Henry James
mimesis
sacrifice
The Sacred Fount
Unheimlich
spellingShingle double contrainte
énonciation
Henry James
mimesis
sacrifice
The Sacred Fount
Unheimlich
Anker, Richard
L’Inquiétante modernité de The Sacred Fount
topic_facet double contrainte
énonciation
Henry James
mimesis
sacrifice
The Sacred Fount
Unheimlich
description Just before writing The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, James wrote The Sacred Fount, and attempted to write a novel entitled The Sense of the Past, works in which an ambitious attempt to unearth the “source” of his writing and the mimetic origin of thought came to a head. The author’s apparent repudiation of the first, the failure to complete the latter, and the immense critical success which crowned his return to the “realist” novel, have all contributed to nearly obliterate, a century of (mis-)reading later, the wit and the analytical insight contained in what in many regards is James’s most “modern” novel, as well as the most (eccentrically) central novel of his œuvre as a whole. This paper attempts to throw light on the mimetic logic underwriting this paradoxically eccentric center, on the apocryphal nature of it – its “im-posture” as a work of representation –, and on the inherently impious, or traitorous, manner of being of this work in the eyes of the Master.
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title L’Inquiétante modernité de The Sacred Fount
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