Conrad in the Twenty-First Century (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives
Redaktion: Kaplan, Carola; White, Andrea; Mallios, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of original essays by leading Conrad scholars that rereads Conrad in light of his representations of post-colonialism, of empire, imperialism, and of modernism, questions that are once again relevant today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135874667
• Artikelnr.: 47892644

Autorenporträt

Carola M. Kaplan is Professor of English at California State University, Pamona and President of the Joseph Conrad Association of America. She is coeditor of Seeing Double: Revisioning Edwardian and Modernist Literature (Palgrave MacMillan, 1996). Peter Mallios (Ph.D. Stanford, 2000) is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Maryland. He edited, annotated, and provided introductions for The Modern Library Classics editions of Conrad's Victory: An Island Tale (Modern Library, 2003), Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River (Modern Library, 2002), and Under Western Eyes (Modern Library, 2001). Andrea White is Associate Professor of English at California State University at Dominguez Hills and First Vice President of the Joseph Conrad Association of America. She is author of Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition: Constructing and Deconstructing the Imperial Subject (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations Acknowledgments Int roduction CAROLA KAPLAN, PETER LANCELOT
MALLIOS, ANDREA WHITE Foreword J. HILLIS MILLER Part 1. Millennial Conrad:
Heart of Darkness in the Twenty-First Century 1 Beyond Mastery: The Future
of Conrad's Beginnings GEOFFREY GALT HARPHAM 2 The Moment and After-Life of
Heart of Darkness BENITA PARRY 3 Some Millennial Footnotes on Heart of
Darkness DAPHNA ERDINAST-VULCAN 4 Conrad's Darkness Revisited: Mediated
Warfare and Modern(ist) Propaganda in Heart of Darkness and The Unlighted
Coast MARK WOLLAEGER Part 2. Global Conrad 5 Between Men: Conrad in the
Fiction of Two Contemporary Indian Writers PADMINI MONGIA 6 Opera and the
Passage of Literature: Joseph Conrad, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and the
Cultural Dialectic of Abysmal Taste CHRISTOPHER GOGWILT 7 Conrad's
Heterotopic Fiction: Composite Maps, Superimposed Sites, and Impossible
Spaces ROBERT HAMPSON 8 Connoisseurs of Terror and the Political Aesthetics
of Anarchism: Nostromo and A Set of Six ANTHONY FOTHERGILL 9 Reading The
Secret Agent Now: The Press, the Police, the Premonition of Simulation
PETER LANCELOT MALLIOS Part 3. Conrad and Textuality 10 Suspended WILLIAM
W. BONNEY 11 Conrad on the Borderlands of Modernism: Maurice Greiffenhagen,
Dorothy Richardson, and the Case of Typhoon SUSAN JONES 12 Conrad and
Posthumanist Narration: Fabricating Class and Consciousness on Board the
Narcissus BRIAN RICHARDSON 13 The Thing Which Was Not and The Thing That Is
Also: Conrad's Ironic Shadowing LAURENCE DAVIES Part 4. Conrad and
Subjectivity 14 Writing from Within: Autobiography and Immigrant
Subjectivity in The Mirror of the Sea ANDREA WHITE 15 A Matter of Tears:
Grieving in Under Western Eyes JENNIFER FRASER 16 Beyond Gender:
Deconstructions of Masculinity and Femininity from Karain to Under Western
Eyes CAROLA M. KAPLAN Part 5. Traveling with Conrad 17 An Interview with
Edward W. Said Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index