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…mehr
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Psychosocial Contexts of Conrad: Authorial Subjectivity PART ONE: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND 'SECULAR THEODICY' Alterity and Emptiness: A Psychosocial Reading of The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' Saved from Separation: The Tale's Sentimental Conclusion and the 'Preface' PART TWO: TALES TOLD IN THE MATRIX OF IMPERIALISM: HEART OF DARKNESS AND LORD JIM Imperialist Nation and Self-Fashioning Marlovian Narration and Unreconstructed Ideology Critique Positioning Conrad: Reading for Affect in Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim PART THREE: DISAPPEARING LANDMARKS: 'REVOLUTIONARY' SOCIAL CHANGE AND PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY The Political and Personal Cultures of The Secret Agent Conrad in Relation: Wells, Galsworthy, Dostoevsky Under Western Eyes : A 'Russian' Novel by 'Homo-Duplex' Notes Index
Introduction: The Psychosocial Contexts of Conrad: Authorial Subjectivity PART ONE: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND 'SECULAR THEODICY' Alterity and Emptiness: A Psychosocial Reading of The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' Saved from Separation: The Tale's Sentimental Conclusion and the 'Preface' PART TWO: TALES TOLD IN THE MATRIX OF IMPERIALISM: HEART OF DARKNESS AND LORD JIM Imperialist Nation and Self-Fashioning Marlovian Narration and Unreconstructed Ideology Critique Positioning Conrad: Reading for Affect in Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim PART THREE: DISAPPEARING LANDMARKS: 'REVOLUTIONARY' SOCIAL CHANGE AND PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY The Political and Personal Cultures of The Secret Agent Conrad in Relation: Wells, Galsworthy, Dostoevsky Under Western Eyes : A 'Russian' Novel by 'Homo-Duplex' Notes Index
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