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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457290403321

Titolo

Conrad in the twenty-first century : contemporary approaches and perspectives / / edited by Carola M. Kaplan, Peter Mallios, and Andrea White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-87466-2

1-135-87467-0

1-280-09638-1

0-203-31291-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KaplanCarola M. <1942->

MalliosPeter Lancelot

WhiteAndrea <1942->

Disciplina

823/.912

B

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Foreword; Beyond Mastery: The Future of Conrad's Beginnings; The Moment and After-Life of Heart of Darkness; Some Millennial Footnotes on Heart of Darkness; Conrad's Darkness Revisited: Mediated Warfare and Modern(ist) Propaganda in Heart of Darkness and ""The Unlighted Coast""; Between Men: Conrad in the Fiction of Two Contemporary Indian Writers; Opera and the Passage of Literature: Joseph Conrad, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and the Cultural Dialectic of Abysmal Taste

Conrad's Heterotopic Fiction: Composite Maps, Superimposed Sites, and Impossible SpacesConnoisseurs of Terror and the Political Aesthetics  of Anarchism: Nostromo and A Set of Six; Reading The Secret Agent Now: The Press, the Police,  the Premonition of Simulation; Suspended; Conrad on the Borderlands of Modernism:  Maurice Greiffenhagen, Dorothy Richardson, andthe Case of Typhoon; Conrad and Posthumanist Narration: Fabricating Class  and Consciousness on



Board the Narcissus; ""The Thing Which Was Not"" and The Thing That  Is Also: Conrad's Ironic Shadowing

Writing from Within: Autobiography and Immigrant  Subjectivity in The Mirror of the Sea""A Matter of Tears"": Grieving in Under Western Eyes; Beyond Gender: Deconstructions of Masculinity and  Femininity from ""Karain"" to Under Western Eyes; An Interview with Edward W. Said; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a collection of original essays by leading Conrad scholars that rereads Conrad in light of his representations of post-colonialism, of empire, imperialism, and of modernism.