LEADER 03261oam 22005534a 450 001 9910272354303321 005 20210915044239.0 010 $a1-5017-2271-9 010 $a1-5017-2272-7 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501722721 035 $a(CKB)4340000000258193 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5317499 035 $a(DE-B1597)496504 035 $a(OCoLC)1028941270 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501722721 035 $a(OCoLC)1057684906 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67518 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000258193 100 $a19870303d1987 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Challenge of Bewilderment$eUnderstanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford /$fPaul B. Armstrong 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d1987. 210 4$dİ1987. 215 $a1 online resource (276 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8014-1949-2 311 $a1-5017-2273-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Bewilderment, Understanding, and Representation --$tPART I. Jamesian Bewilderment: The Composing Powers of Consciousness --$tPART II. Conradian Bewildennent: The Metaphysics of Belief --$tPART III. Fordian Bewilderment: The Primacy of Unreflective Experience --$tEpilogue: Bewilderment and Modern Fiction --$tIndex 330 $aThe Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between knowing and narration. Paul B. Armstrong here addresses the pivotal thematic experience of "bewilderment," an experience that challenges the reader's very sense of reality and that shows it to have no more certainty or stability than an interpretative construct. Through readings of The Sacred Fount and The Ambassadors by James, Lord Jim and Nostromo by Conrad, and The Good Soldier and Parade's End by Ford, Armstrong examines how each writer dramatizes his understanding of the act of knowing. Armstrong demonstrates how the novelists' attitudes toward the process of knowing inform experiments with representation, through which they thematize the relation between the understanding of a fictional world and everyday habits of perception. Finally, he considers how these experiments with the strategies of narration produce a heightened awareness of the process of interpretation. 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of, in literature 606 $aMimesis in literature 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of, in literature. 615 0$aMimesis in literature. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.912/09 700 $aArmstrong$b Paul B.$f1949-$0968813 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910272354303321 996 $aThe Challenge of Bewilderment$92433197 997 $aUNINA