"My Cleverness, I Assure You, Has Grown Infernal": Playing Stupid with Henry James

This article reads Henry James’s bias against his native America ironically. I offer a two-fold reading of the staging and performance of stupidity: it is both a strategy of resistance and a rhetoric of disavowal of responsibility. I contend that Henry James offers Milly Theale, the American rotagon...

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Main Author: Bruno Penteado
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2018-06-01
Series:Remate de Males
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Online Access:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/remate/article/view/8650290