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| Author | : Keith Carabine |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : History |
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Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the academy, deconstruction, and Jacques Derrida in particular, are responsible for the demise of accountability in the study of literature. Countering these facile dismissals of Derrida and deconstruction, Herman Rapaport explores the incoherence that has plagued critical theory since the 1960s and the resulting legitimacy crisis in the humanities. Against the backdrop of a rich, informed discussion of Derrida's writings -- and how they have been misconstrued by critics and admirers alike -- The Theory Mess investigates the vicissitudes of Anglo-American criticism over the past thirty years and proposes some possibilities for reform.
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| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
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| Author | : Ruth L. Nadelhaft |
| Publisher | : Humanities Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780391037229 |
| Author | : Andrzej Busza |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 2024-04-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004690921 |
On account of Conrad’s tragic and fascinating life before he became a writer, critics have usually offered a historical account of his early Polish years. Less attention has been paid to the cultural and literary background of that period and its subsequent influence. In fact, initially that influence was largely ignored. My aim has been not only to rectify that deficiency but to broaden the scope of the issue. In addition to dealing with his Polish background, the book also relates Conrad’s writing to other European literary traditions, notably French and Russian. Exploring the extraordinary geographical and historical range of Conrad’s fictional world, the book examines the rhetorical and narrative strategies employed in its vividly dramatic as well as psychologically insightful depictions.
| Author | : Kaisa Kaakinen |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2017-06-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3319518208 |
This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European émigré writers of the twentieth century — Conrad, Weiss and Sebald — it demonstrates the need to pose more differentiated questions about specific effects that occur when literary narratives meet a readership with a heterogeneous historical imaginary. In conversation with reception theory, trauma theory and transnational and postcolonial studies, the study shows how historical pressures in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries require comparative literature to address not only implied but also various unimplied reading positions that engage history in displaced yet material ways. This book opens new analytical paths for thinking about literary texts as media of historical imagination and conceiving relations between incommensurable historical events and contexts. Challenging overly global and overly local readings alike, the book presents a sophisticated contribution to discussions on how to reform the discipline of comparative literature in the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Alice M. Kelly |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2022-01-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1800855222 |
With the pressing work of decolonising our reading lists gaining traction in UK higher educational contexts, Decolonising the Conrad Canon shows how those author-Gods most associated with the colonial literary canon can also be retooled through decolonial, queer, feminist readings. This book finds pockets of powerful anti-colonial resistance and queer dissonance in Joseph Conrad’s lesser-known works – breathing spaces from the colonial rhetoric that dominates his novels – and traces the female characters who voice them off the page and into their transmedia (digital/illustrative/cinematic) afterlives. From Immada and Edith’s queer gaze in The Rescue and the periodical illustrations that accompanied its initial serialization, to Aïssa’s sustained critique of imperialism in An Outcast of the Islands and her portrayal on mass-market paperback book covers, to the structural female bonds of Almayer’s Folly and Nina’s embodiment in Chantal Akerman’s adaptation La Folie Almayer, this book centres Conrad’s female characters as viable, meaning-making citizens of the canon. Through this intervention, Decolonising the Conrad Canon proposes an innovative model for teaching, reading and studying not just Joseph Conrad’s work but the colonial literary canon more broadly.
| Author | : Todd K. Bender |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 522 |
| Release | : 2020-04-30 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 100004016X |
Originally published in 1979, this concordance to Heart of Darkness is intended for use by the general student of Conrad who wants to determine the exact denotation and connotation of Conrad’s vocabulary, or the patterns of imagery in his work, quickly and effortlessly. It prints under each word every logical context in which it occurs. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works.
| Author | : Sarah-Jane Conrad |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2017-10-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1501504231 |
What methodological impact does Contextualism have on the philosophy of language? This collection sets out to provide some answers. The authors in this volume question three ultimately connected assumptions of the philosophy of language. The first assumption relates to the predominant status of referential semantics and its power to explain truth-conditional meaning. This assumption has come under attack by the context thesis and a number of papers pursue the question of whether this is justified. The second assumption gives priority to assertive sentences when considering language use. The context thesis changes our understanding of language use altogether; possible implications from this methodological shift are addressed in this volume. According to the third assumption, philosophical analysis amounts to nothing more than conceptual analysis. The context thesis risks undermining this project. Whether conceptual analysis can still be defended as a methodological tool is discussed in this volume.
| Author | : Lissa Schneider-Rebozo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2018-10-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351721364 |
This collection of twelve original essays by established and emerging scholars, seeks to explore these landscapes in Conrad’s work and serves as a look into our own recent history at a pivotal time us as we come to realize how our actions, choices and even our mere presence directly impacts the natural world that delicately sustains us. The text engages with work by Joseph Conrad, storied British merchant marine and official British citizen as of 1886.
| Author | : D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2009-03-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134246722 |
Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilisation, race, love and heroism. This classic tale transcends the boundaries of time and place and has inspired famous film and television adaptations emphasising the cultural significance and continued relevance of the book. This guide to Conrad’s captivating novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Heart of Darkness a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new essays and reprinted critical essays on Heart of Darkness, by Ian Watt, Linda Dryden, Ruth Nadelhaft, J. Hillis Miller and Peter Brooks, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Heart of Darkness and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Conrad's text.
