[مقالة]
| عنوان : |
Henry James's America : "The Historic Desert" in Quest of the "Historic Mausoleum" |
| نوع الوثيقة : |
نص مطبوع |
| مؤلفين : |
Mokrani Barkaoui,Selma, مؤلف |
| تاريخ النشر : |
2011 |
| مقالة في الصفحة: |
P20-p33 |
| اللغة : |
إنكليزي (eng) |
| الكلمة المفتاح : |
Henry James , The merican Scene, America , Europe ,nation , space ,negociation ,revision |
| خلاصة : |
America's commercialism has often been weighed against Europe's cultural expertise; the former's artificiality and the latter's originality have constituted the chiastic standard for an imaginative geography of cultural hierarchy. This outlook has further legitimized the general belief that America could not provide the necessary funds for artistic distinction. As a high-cultural expatriate, Henry James emphasized the superiority of European ways through his constant transatlantic comparisons. His choice of Europe came as an immediate consequence of his firm belief that literary genius is spatially determined. Yet the syllogism James advances in his travelogue The American Scene (1907) that "Europe had been romantic years before, because she was different from America; wherefore America would now be romantic because she was different from Europe" reshuffles all understandings of his poetics of space. In this paper I propose to study James's revision/negotiation, in The American Scene, of the metaphors of space that he had long attributed to America. I try to demonstrate his transformation into a "fond investor" with a highly mobile sensibility, who is motivated by the intellectual economy to impart meaning to national symbols in order to reinvent more "romantic" spatial syntaxes about his forsaken motherland. I also attempt to show that, as part of his negotiation with the American donnée, he undertakes a curative rescinding of his racial prejudices. |
in Revue française d'étude américaines > 127 (Trimestrielle) . - P20-p33
[مقالة] Henry James's America : "The Historic Desert" in Quest of the "Historic Mausoleum" [نص مطبوع ] / Mokrani Barkaoui,Selma, مؤلف . - 2011 . - P20-p33. اللغة : إنكليزي ( eng) in Revue française d'étude américaines > 127 (Trimestrielle) . - P20-p33
| الكلمة المفتاح : |
Henry James , The merican Scene, America , Europe ,nation , space ,negociation ,revision |
| خلاصة : |
America's commercialism has often been weighed against Europe's cultural expertise; the former's artificiality and the latter's originality have constituted the chiastic standard for an imaginative geography of cultural hierarchy. This outlook has further legitimized the general belief that America could not provide the necessary funds for artistic distinction. As a high-cultural expatriate, Henry James emphasized the superiority of European ways through his constant transatlantic comparisons. His choice of Europe came as an immediate consequence of his firm belief that literary genius is spatially determined. Yet the syllogism James advances in his travelogue The American Scene (1907) that "Europe had been romantic years before, because she was different from America; wherefore America would now be romantic because she was different from Europe" reshuffles all understandings of his poetics of space. In this paper I propose to study James's revision/negotiation, in The American Scene, of the metaphors of space that he had long attributed to America. I try to demonstrate his transformation into a "fond investor" with a highly mobile sensibility, who is motivated by the intellectual economy to impart meaning to national symbols in order to reinvent more "romantic" spatial syntaxes about his forsaken motherland. I also attempt to show that, as part of his negotiation with the American donnée, he undertakes a curative rescinding of his racial prejudices. |
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Affiner la rechercheHenry James's America / Mokrani Barkaoui,Selma in Revue française d'étude américaines, 127 (Trimestrielle)
