出版社：AEDEAN (Asociación española de estudios anglo-norteamericanos)
摘要：This paper frames the figure of the object – a libidinally invested and desired object– in terms of its progression and development in Jamesian narrative, emphasizing how Henry James’s discourse on possession – the process of striving to secure the central object in narration– gains complexity and sophistication in his so called ‘major phase’ – from 1880 to 1905. Jamesian narratives continually foreground the implication of the novel itself in the plot of ‘thwarted desire’ these fictions criticize. The narratological tensions in James’s texts attest to the self–critical aspect (of the novel by the novel) of this internally directed critique. I have based my analysis of Jamesian late realism upon The Aspern Papers and ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, representative texts of James’s short fiction and novellas, in which objects – art or aesthetic objects such as literature, epistemological objects such as secrets or money – are foregrounded and which explore the circuitous routes of desire, systematically thwarted desire, and of libidinal and bourgeois possession.
关键词：Henry James, object, secret, major phase, late realism, modernism
