Henry James and the Trickster-Fiction
Abstract This article develops an approach to the concept of ‘trickster-fiction’ through reading of Henry James’s short stories and nouvelles, with particular attention to the parallel between «The Figure in the Carpet» and «The Beast in the Jungle». In these novels the interpretation of secrecy becomes a central element in the narrative structure, since hermeneutic uncertainty causes an effect of undecidability in connection with the secret that motivates the emplotment of fictional events. From this point of view, the ‘trickster-fiction’ is not a new or special mode of narrative, but a radical explicitation of the tricks and procedures of fantastic literature, and it also constitutes a singular form of the mimetic crisis that characterizes some tendencies of modern literature.
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Bessière, Irène. Le récit fantastique. La poétique de l’incertain. Paris: Larousse, 1974.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. A Rhetoric of Unreal. Studies in Narrative & Structure, especially of the Fantastic. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Ceserani, Remo. Il fantástico. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1996.
Derrida, Jacques. «La littérature au secret – Une filiation impossible». En Donner la mort. Paris: Galilée, 1999.
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1957.
Genette, Gérard. «L’envers des signes». En Figures I. Paris: Seuil, 1966.
Iser, Wolfgang. Der Akt des Lesens. Theorie ästhetischer Wirkung. München: W. Fink, 1976.
James, Henry. The Figure in the Carpet and other stories. Editado por Frank Kermode. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1986.
James, Henry. The Complete Notebooks of Henry James. Editado por Leon Edel & Lyall H. Powers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
James, Henry. «The Beast in the Jungle» y «The Art of Fiction». En Tales of Henry James. A Norton Critical Edition. Editado por Christof Wegelin y Henry B. Wonham. New York & London: Norton & Company, 2003.
James, Henry. The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces. Editado por Richard P. Blackmur. Prólogo de Colm Tóibín. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2011.
Jung, Carl Gustav. «Acerca de la psicología de la figura del trickster». En Los arquetipos y lo inconsciente colectivo. Obra Completa, vol. 9/1. Traducción de Carmen Gauger. Madrid: Trotta, 2002.
Kermode, Frank. The Genesis of Secrecy. On the Interpretation of Narrative. Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Levy, Leo B. «A Reading of “The Figure in the Carpet”». American Literature. Duke University Press, 1962, vol. 33, n.º 4, pp. 457-465.
Lindholt, Paul J. «Pragmatism and «The Beast in the Jungle”». Studies in Short Fiction, 1988, vol. 25, n.º 3, pp. 275-288.
Liss, David. «The Fixation of Belief in «The Figure in the Carpet»: Henry James and Peircean Semiotics». Henry James Review, 1955, vol. 16, n.º 1, pp. 36-37.
Meletinskij, Eleazar M. Istoricheskaja poètika novelly [Moskva, Nauka, 1990]. Poetica storica della novella. Traducido por Laura Sestri; editado por Massimo Bonafin. Macerata: Eum Edizioni, 2014.
Miller, Joseph Hillis. «The Figure in the Carpet». Poetics Today, 1980, vol. 1:3, pp. 107-118.
Peirce, Charles S. «How to Make Our Ideas Clear». [Popular Science Monthly, January 1878, pp. 286-302]. «¿Cómo esclarecer nuestras ideas?». Traducido por José Vericat. En El hombre, un signo. El pragmatismo de Pierce. Barcelona: Crítica, 1988.
Quigley, Megan. «Beastly Vagueness in Charles S. Peirce and Henry James». Philosophy and Literature, 2007, vol. 31:2, pp. 362-377.
Rimmon, Slomith. The Concept of Ambiguity – The Example of James. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
Salmon, Rachel. «A Marriage of Opposites: Henry James’s «The Figure in the Carpet» and the Problem of Ambiguity». English Literary History, 1980, vol. 47, pp. 788-803.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley-Los Angeles: California University Press, 1990.
Todorov, Tzvetan. Introduction à la littérature fantastique. Paris: Seuil, 1970.
Todorov, Tzvetan. «Le secret du récit». En Poétique de la prose. Paris: Seuil, 1971.
Cuesta Abad, J. M. (2022). Henry James and the Trickster-Fiction. 1616: Anuario De Literatura Comparada, 11, 141–162. https://doi.org/10.14201/1616202111141162
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