Amimesis And the Signature: Grammatological Openings in the Scarlet Letter And Moby-Dick
Amimesis And the Signature: Grammatological Openings in the Scarlet Letter And Moby-Dick
Kimball, Arthur Samuel
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Not only is the intentional object contingent on the subject for its givenness, but the intuition of that object consti- tutes the subject as an awareness. Every instance of consciousness, or intention, therefore presumes both a subject and an object, reciprocally consti- tuting each other as act and structure. (8) Some such notion of intentionality seems to underwrite Herbert's view of how gender is constructed. Gender names an aspect of selfhood where intentional object and intending subject ...merge: to recall Herbert's previously cited remark, "in the cultural construction of gender both the builders and the building materials are human beings who are at work on one another" (287) . Gender, then, becomes a socially constructed meaning that is reabsorbed into consciousness as an implicit mimetic 15 code or systematized mimetic governance of behavior. 79 As I shall attempt to show in the next chapter, however, The Scar- let Letter disrupts all such semantic codes and their governance by disrupting their supposed foundation, truth.
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