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050 00 $aPS2124$b.R5 1996
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100 1 $aRivkin, Julie.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95121891
245 10 $aFalse positions :$bthe representational logics of Henry James's fiction /$cJulie Rivkin.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c1996.
263 $a9610
300 $aviii, 225 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-219) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tGhost Writers: Jamesian Tales of Representation --$g2.$tFalse Positions: The Logic of Delegation in The Ambassadors --$g3.$tLife Like Copies: The Dual Economy of The Wings of the Dove --$g4.$tThe Proper Third Person: Undoing the Oedipal Family in What Maisie Knew --$g5.$tMaking Virgins: The Production and Consumption of Innocence in The Awkward Age.
520 $aRepresentation is the subject of this book, representation taken in a series of senses, from the formal and linguistic to the social and political. Representation poses a theoretical problem that can be located in the inconsistency between two vocabularies for compositional method: one positing a "centre of consciousness" (James's term), the other being a story of displaced agency and intermediaries, of deputies, delegates, and substitutes.
520 8 $aWhat the center promises - that consciousness can be fully incarnated in a given character who will then constitute a foundation for meaning and truth in the novel - is exactly what the "delegate" acknowledges as an impossibility.
520 8 $aDrawing largely on the theory of representation of Jacques Derrida, this book examines the interplay between the two contradictory positions in detailed readings of James's stories of writers and artists and his novels The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, What Maisie Knew, and The Awkward Age.
520 8 $aThroughout, the readings are organized by the supplementary logic of representation - a logic that understands that a thing standing for another thing both completes it and suggests a lack or limitation in that which it completes, and hence ultimately in itself.
600 10 $aJames, Henry,$d1843-1916$xTechnique.
650 0 $aMimesis in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085454
650 0 $aLogic in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006070
650 0 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089833
650 0 $aFiction$xTechnique.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048065
852 00 $bglx$hPS2124$i.R5 1996