From Sight Through to In-Sight: Time, Narrative and Subjectivity in Conrad and Ford - Couverture souple

Sabbagh, Omar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042037822 ISBN 13 : 9789042037823

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2014

Synopsis

An interdisciplinary study of the Impressionist/early Modernist works of Conrad and Ford, this book aims to show how the represented temporalities (whether to do with past, present, future experience within and without the novels, or logical/structural relations of ‘before’ and ‘after’) are at the core of the won effects of both authors’ oeuvres. Looking at such well-known works as Nostromo, The Good Soldier, The Fifth Queen, Parade’s End, the study makes use of philosophy (historical and contemporary), theology, psychoanalysis, and other sources, to re-describe, unlock and display the fertile ways in which time and historical experience are both manumitted within the tales analysed, and, recursively, within their reading experience. Ultimately, the two senses of ‘making you see’, from Conrad’s iconic Preface, are used as gambits to understand the ways in which these novels are metaphysically vibrant, symbolically hopeful- as against the more common interpretation of metaphysical dissolution and (over-determined) failure.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The study makes use of philosophy, theology, psychoanalysis, and other sources, to re-describe, unlock and display the fertile ways in which time and historical experience are both manumitted within the tales analysed, and, recursively, within their reading experience.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042037822
• ISBN 13: 9789042037823
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible