John G. Peters

Conrad and Impressionism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this 2001 book, John Peters investigates the impact of Impressionism on Conrad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780521791731
• ISBN-10: 0521791731
• Artikelnr.: 26938562

Autorenporträt

John G. Peters is Assistant Professor of English as University of Wisconsin-Superior. He won the Joseph Conrad Society of America's Young Scholar's Award for 1999. This is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction: objects of consciousness in Conrad's impressionist world
1. Subject/object: science and the epistemological origins of literary impressionism
2. Objects and events in the 'primitive eye': the epistemology of objectivity
3. Other-like-self and other-unlike-self: the epistemology of subjectivity
4. 'Sudden holes' in time: the epistemology of temporality
5. Radical relativism, epistemological certainty and ethical absolutes: Conrad's impressionist response to solopsism and anarchy
Epilogue
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index.