Joseph Conrad and the Reader
Autor A. Acheraïouen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 oct 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781349309979
ISBN-10: 1349309974
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: X, 233 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1st edition 2009
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1349309974
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: X, 233 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1st edition 2009
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Conrad's Conception of Authorship: Probing the Implications and Limits of the Death-of-the-author Theory PART II: RECEPTION THEORY: READING AS A CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT Polish Responses: Art and the Ethics of Collectivity British Reception: Englishness and the Act of Reading PART III: AESTHETIC RAMIFICATIONS, NARRATIVE ENTANGLEMENTS & FICTIONAL READERS Conrad's Visual Aesthetics: Classical and Modern Connections A Cartography of Conrad's Fictional Readers: Reading Hierarchy in Lord Jim , 'Heart of Darkness' , Nostromo and Victory Narrative Solidarity and Competition for Truth and Signification Conrad and the Construction of the Reader: Tension between Democratic Vision and Aristocratic Leaning Narrative Self-Consciousness and the Act of Reading: Examining Under Western Eyes through the Lens of Fielding's, Sterne's and Diderot's Poetics Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
Notă biografică
AMAR ACHERAIOU (PhD, Sorbonne Nouvelle) has published numerous articles on Joseph Conrad, modernist literatures, postmodernist thought, and postcolonial theories. He is the author of Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literatures and the Legacy of Classical Writers and editor of Joseph Conrad and the Orient. He is currently completing a book entitled Demystifying Third Space Narratives: Hybridity in Postcolonial and Globalization Discourses.