Johan Adam Warodell

Conrad's Decentered Fiction (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What are the fingerprints of Joseph Conrad's fiction? This richly illustrated book argues that Conrad's vibrant details set him apart as a writer and brings them from the margins to the center for study. With recently discovered primary sources - including drawings and maps in Conrad's own hand - this book travels widely across Conrad's fiction and explores its interest in marginal voices, characters and details. It produces a new picture of Conrad as a writer, and the first picture of Conrad as an amateur sketch artist. Introducing new critical vocabulary and applying new names from art history to Conrad studies, the book ranges across cartography, fashion, analytic philosophy, manuscript studies, and animal studies to discover Conrad as an artist operating across and between different media. Offered as a complement to the abstract approaches of much literary theory, this detail-driven and margin-focused monograph mirrors the characteristic granular nature of Conrad's fiction.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009079372
• Artikelnr.: 66176893

Autorenporträt

Johan Adam Warodell's articles on Joseph Conrad have appeared in The Cambridge Quarterly, Conradiana, The Conradian, English, and Notes & Queries, and won prizes from both the British and American Joseph Conrad Societies. He translated Olof Lagercrantz's monograph on Conrad and has also published on Woolf, Nabokov, and Melville.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Preprint Documents: Paper
Pen and Ink: 1. Doodles and The Shadow-Line; 2. Maps and Victory
'Geography and Some Explorers'
'The Secret Sharer'
and An Outcast of the Islands; 3. Drawings and The Sisters; Part II. Published Texts: Working Method and Philosophy: 4. Decoding and 'Heart of Darkness'; 5. Distraction and 'Heart of Darkness'
Lord Jim
The Secret Agent
Under Western Eyes; 6. Details and The Secret Agent; Part III. Patterns and Preoccupations: Marginal Voices and Characters: 7. Voices and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'; 8. Hats
Nostromo
'The Secret Sharer'
and The Secret Agent; 9. Animals
'Heart of Darkness'
and 'The Planter of Malata'.