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The strange short fiction of Joseph Conrad : writing, culture, and subjectivity

Title
The strange short fiction of Joseph Conrad : writing, culture, and subjectivity / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan.
Author
Erdinast-Vulcan, Daphna.
Publication
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Description
191 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"This study engages with the troubled question of authorial subjectivity and ethics in Modernism in general and in Conrad's short fiction in particular, and offers an original theoretical perspective, inspired by the work of Derrida and the early philosophical writings of M.M. Bakhtin."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
  • Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924
  • Dostoevskij, Fëdor Michajlovič 1821-1881
  • Conrad, Joseph, (1857-1924) > Critique et interprétation
  • Conrad, Joseph
  • Dostoevskij, Fedor M
  • Centro para la Promoción de la Conservación del Suelo y del Agua Buenos Aires
  • Modernism (Literature) > England
  • Subjectivity in literature
  • Ethics in literature
  • Short story
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Ethik
  • Kurzgeschichte
  • Moderne
  • Subjektivität
  • Subjectiviteit
  • Korte verhalen
  • Engels
  • Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain
  • Modernisme (littérature) > Grande-Bretagne
  • Morale > Dans la littérature
  • Subjectivité > Dans la littérature
  • Prosa
  • England
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Short stories.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. I. On the Edge of the Subject. 1. The Heterobiography of Joseph K. Conrad. 2. The Seductions of the Aesthetic -- pt. II. The Strange Short Fiction. 1. Writing and Fratricide. 2. The Pathos of Authenticity. 3. The Poetics of Cultural Despair. 4. The Romantic Paradox. 5. Addressing the Woman. Coda: Re-enter the Reader.
ISBN
  • 0198184999
  • 9780198184997
LCCN
99038011
OCLC
  • ocm41832906
  • 41832906
  • SCSB-14583754
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library