"In the Mystic Circle": The Space of the Unspeakable in Henry James's The Sacred Fount.
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Date: 9/22/2000
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Author: Priest, Ann-Marie
The Sacred Fount, in trying to hold open a space for the unspeakable, uses textual strategies similar to those developed by apophatic mystics to speak about God. In his study of apophatic languages, Mystical Languages of Unsaying, Michael Sells argues that the "aporia" of the ineffable in the mystic text--the problem of speaking of that which cannot be spoken about--results not in silence but in "a new mode of discourse" (2). [l] To speak of that of which nothing can be said requires ...
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