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

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.912; B
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KaplanCarola M. <1942-> MalliosPeter Lancelot WhiteAndrea <1942->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Conrad in the twenty-first century
• ISBN: 1-135-87466-2; 1-135-87467-0; 1-280-09638-1; 0-203-31291-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457290403321
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