Writing in Between: Modernity and Psychosocial Dilemma in the Novels of Joseph Conrad - Couverture rigide

Ash, Beth Sharon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312214839 ISBN 13 : 9780312214838

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

In Writing in Between, Beth Sharon Ash develops an important theoretical framework for interpreting Conrad's signal texts and his situation as an author. Using object-relations psychoanalysis, Ash reinserts into the literary conversation the idea of the psychologically-inflected subject. She integrates authorial subjectivity within historical context, thus lending agency and density to the 'relational subject' without neglecting the social forces which shape it. This book carefully positions Conrad as a writer caught 'in between, ' as both a figure of alienation, critically disenchanted with British imperialism, and an orphan of genius desperately desiring a fit with his adopted culture. Through specific, often surprising readings of Conrad's novels and broad analysis of psychoanalytic and modernist criticism, Ash makes a significant theoretical contribution to theories of the subject.

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À propos de l'auteur

BETH SHARON ASH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and taught previously for several years at the University of Chicago. She has published extensively on Henry James, other Modernists such as Walter Benjamin, and select topics in critical and literary theory, including Jewish hermeneutics, deconstruction, and psychohistory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312214839
• ISBN 13: 9780312214838
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 348
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