The Inwardness of Things: Joseph Conrad and the Voice of Poetry - Couverture rigide

Baldwin, Debra Romanick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1487558058 ISBN 13 : 9781487558055

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2024

Synopsis

The Inwardness of Things considers Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in an ancient and enduring quarrel between the poets and the philosophers. Beginning from the polemical poetics of his 1897 preface, Debra Romanick Baldwin focuses on Conrad's distinctively poetic "inward" approach to truth - an inwardness that is found in lived experience, in language, and in the world beyond the individual.

The book traces Conrad's poetic voice from the rhetoric of his private letters to the narrative techniques of his fiction and finally to his explicit engagement with abstract approaches to truth. Baldwin applies narrative and rhetorical analysis to Conrad's private correspondence, showing how he encouraged fellow writers - John Galsworthy, F. Warrington Dawson, R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Ted Sanderson, and Edward Noble - to engage with the inwardness of their own experience. The book explores how Conrad crafted moments of narrative solidarity in his fictional narratives to evoke the experience of the inwardness of another, while also considering his explicit polemics against abstract approaches to truth-seeking.

Mindful of the colonial, late Victorian, Polish Romantic, and cosmopolitan contexts in which Conrad wrote, The Inwardness of Things nevertheless situates him in a broader human conversation that he himself invited and argues for the enduring value of his art.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Debra Romanick Baldwin is an associate professor of English at the University of Dallas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487558058
• ISBN 13: 9781487558055
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
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