"treat me your subject": Henry James's "The Jolly Corner" and I

This article argues that first-, third-, and second-person pronouns are central to the perverse, queer story of "The Jolly Corner," with its looping and loopy disavowal of person, tense, and syntax (identity, time, and chronology). Numbers condense the narrative elements of identity, time, and chronology and function as markers of priority in the naming of pronouns, of placement in time, and of chronology. "The Jolly Corner" is the story of a "morbid obsession" with a disembodied other, an other who is not other.