Irony and the Question of Presentation in The American Scene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22064880 |
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| Authors | Richard Anker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | HS 3 |
| Issue | HS 3 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Viatica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2275-0827 • E-ISSN: 2275-0827 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.52497/viatica1238 |
| OpenAlex | W2993018398 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Several scenarios of The American Scene are studied to emphasize the irreconcilable nature of performative and constative functions of language as a medium of aesthetic presentation, rendering impossible any attempt to reduce the text to a historico-political document, and underwriting on the contrary the ironic character of its discourse. This discursive irony is read as a counter-force to the aesthetic ideology that James sees installing itself in the United States as what he calls the “hotel-world,” a nihilist and spectacular mode of the American spirit
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Humanities · Ideology · Irony · Literature · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Law · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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