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Space, Conrad, and modernity

Title: Space, Conrad, and modernity / Con Coroneos.
Author: Coroneos, Con.
Publication: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description

viii, 199 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Recent literary and cultural criticism is concerned with space. The author uses the work of Joseph Conrad to unravel and explore aspects of spatial thought culminating in the influence of Saussurean linguistics in contemporary criticism and theory.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-196) and index.

Contents

Such a cruel knowledge -- Millenarian geography -- The view from everywhere -- Heartless modernism -- Enucleation: the secret agent -- Anarchist geography -- Eagleton and espionage -- The idiom of idiom neutral --Kreemo, Blaxo, Nostromo -- Authentic creole -- Before Babel -- Mystical criticism -- Modernism and the seance -- 'Russianness' -- The cult of heart of darkness -- The night-time Saussure -- Why Bergson laughs -- Geometrophilia -- Somnambulism -- The bathos -- Do the police have dreams? -- The third man and dead space -- Shadow -lines -- Foucault and critique noire -- Conclusion.

ISBN

019818736X
9780198187363

LCCN

2001052067

OCLC

ocm48083920
48083920
SCSB-14574346

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Princeton University Library