Place and Psychogeography in Henry James’s The Ambassadors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21486515 |
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| Authors | Souad Baghli Berbar (0000-0003-4091-2306, University of Abou Bekr Belkaïd, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 77-87 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska sectio FF – Philologiae (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0239-426X • E-ISSN: 2449-853X |
| Publisher | Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17951/ff.2023.41.2.77-87 |
| OpenAlex | W4390591418 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Following the recent spatial turn in literary criticism and the shift of focus on place, the present paper examines the special significance of place in Henry James’s novel The Ambassadors (1903) and explores the relationship between geography and psychology through the main character, Lambert Strether. Analysing the latter’s outer and inner observations draws on a close reading of the novel and the instrumentation of such theories as psychogeography and psychoanalytical criticism. Strether’s trip is an introspective voyage as much as an exploratory expedition, allowing insight into his subconsciousness through the tropes of the places he traverses. His mental visions of spaces in the novel can be surmised in terms of a psychogeography of his movements, a sort of landscape of the mind which is a reflection of the Freudian perception of the human psyche
Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Freudian slip · Introspection · Literature · Perception · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subconscious · Vision · Anthropology · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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