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Splitting the Difference: Aesthetic Relations in Henry James and Leo Bersani

Author(s) -

Sigi Jöttkandt

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

the henry james review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 1080-6555

pISSN - 0273-0340

DOI - 10.1353/hjr.2011.0017

Subject(s) - subjectivity , object (grammar) , realism , subject (documents) , relation (database) , period (music) , philosophy , aesthetics , art , literature , psychoanalysis , epistemology , psychology , computer science , linguistics , database , library science

As an alternative to psychoanalysis’s aggressive subject/object relation, Leo Bersani proposes a more modulated, aesthetic subjectivity. This essay explores Bersani’s concept of aesthetic relations through impressionism’s and realism’s competing demands on the artistic object in Henry James’s “Flickerbridge.” I suggest this 1902 short story can be productively read as a theory of the perspectival shift James was exploring in his experiments with literary impressionism in that period

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