Eventual benefits : kristevan readings of female subjectivity in Henry James’s Late Novels
dc.contributor.advisor | Eberle Sinatra, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Tufenkjian, Viken | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-25T18:27:56Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | fr |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-25T18:27:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-04-20 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2015-08 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1866/14113 | |
dc.subject | Henry James | fr |
dc.subject | Julia Kristeva | fr |
dc.subject | Subjectivité féminine | fr |
dc.subject | Objectification | fr |
dc.subject | Abjection | fr |
dc.subject | Intertextualité | fr |
dc.subject | Maternité | fr |
dc.subject | Pardon | fr |
dc.subject | Étrangeté | fr |
dc.subject | Female subjectivity | fr |
dc.subject | Intertextuality | fr |
dc.subject | Motherhood | fr |
dc.subject | Forgiveness | fr |
dc.subject | Foreignness | fr |
dc.subject.other | Literature - English / Littérature - Anglaise (UMI : 0593) | fr |
dc.title | Eventual benefits : kristevan readings of female subjectivity in Henry James’s Late Novels | fr |
dc.type | Thèse ou mémoire / Thesis or Dissertation | |
etd.degree.discipline | Études anglaises | fr |
etd.degree.grantor | Université de Montréal | |
etd.degree.level | Doctorat / Doctoral | fr |
etd.degree.name | Ph. D. | fr |
dcterms.abstract | “Eventual Benefits: Kristevan Readings of Female Subjectivity in Henry James’s Late Novels” examine la construction de la subjectivité féminine dans les romans de la phase majeure de Henry James, notamment What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove et The Golden Bowl. Les personnages féminins de James se trouvent souvent dans des circonstances sociales ou familiales qui défavorisent l’autonomie psychique, et ces subordinations sont surtout nuisibles pour les jeunes personnages de l’auteur. Quant aux femmes américaines expatriées de ces romans, elles éprouvent l’objectification sociale et pécuniaire des européens : en conséquence, elles déploient des tactiques contraires afin d’inverser leurs diminutions et instaurer leurs individualités. Ma recherche des protocoles qui subventionnent l’affranchissement de ces femmes procède dans le cadre des théories avancées par Julia Kristeva. En utilisant les postulats kristeviens d’abjection et de mélancolie, d’intertextualité, de maternité et de grossesse, du pardon et d’étrangeté, cette thèse explore les stratégies disparates et résistantes des femmes chez James et elle parvient à une conception de la subjectivité féminine comme un processus continuellement ajourné. | fr |
dcterms.abstract | “Eventual Benefits: Kristevan Readings of Female Subjectivity in Henry James’s Late Novels” examines the constitution of female subjectivity in Henry James’s What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. In these five novels of James’s major phase, female characters often find themselves in social or familial circumstances inimical to the autonomous psychic growth. Such subjections are particularly devastating for the children or adolescents of the first three novels. Likewise, James’s expatriate American women negotiate social and pecuniary objectifications by the Europeans they encounter; consequently, they deploy counteractive tactics to surmount their diminution and install their selfhoods. My investigation of the protocols subsidizing the enfranchisement of these itinerant women proceeds in the framework of Julia Kristeva’s theories. Recruiting her postulates of abjection and melancholia, intertextuality, motherhood and pregnancy, forgiveness and foreignness, this dissertation scrutinizes the disparate and resistant strategies of James’s female characters and arrives at a conception of female subjectivity as a continually deferred process. | fr |
dcterms.language | eng | fr |
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