Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper
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1991
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-811785-8 (ISBN)
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-811785-8 (ISBN)
A study of Conrad's work set against the crisis of modernity at the turn of the century. It discusses nine major novels and novellas, and presents Conrad as a "modernist at war with modernity" who, despite his affinity with the Nietzschean outlook, rejected its ultimate implications.
A study which relates Conrad's work to the crisis of modernity in the late nineteenth century, this book discusses 'faultlines' - ambiguities and apparent aesthetic ruptures - in nine of the major novels and novellas. These faultlines are diagnosed as the symptoms of an unresolved tension between Conrad's temperamental affinity with the Nietzschean outlook and his fierce ideological rejection of its ultimate implications.
Presenting Conrad as 'a modernist at war with modernity', the author studies the perpetual tug-of-war between the artistic will to meaning and the writer's susceptibility to the modern temper, both as a theme and as a structuring principle in his work. The modes of this struggle are defined as the 'failure of myth', the 'failure of metaphysics', and the 'failure of textuality'. This continuously forceful and original inquiry draws on the work of Nietzsche, Vaihinger, Bakhtin, Heller, and MacIntyre, amongst others, to present the ethical and epistemological issues which are interwoven with Conrad's aesthetics.
A study which relates Conrad's work to the crisis of modernity in the late nineteenth century, this book discusses 'faultlines' - ambiguities and apparent aesthetic ruptures - in nine of the major novels and novellas. These faultlines are diagnosed as the symptoms of an unresolved tension between Conrad's temperamental affinity with the Nietzschean outlook and his fierce ideological rejection of its ultimate implications.
Presenting Conrad as 'a modernist at war with modernity', the author studies the perpetual tug-of-war between the artistic will to meaning and the writer's susceptibility to the modern temper, both as a theme and as a structuring principle in his work. The modes of this struggle are defined as the 'failure of myth', the 'failure of metaphysics', and the 'failure of textuality'. This continuously forceful and original inquiry draws on the work of Nietzsche, Vaihinger, Bakhtin, Heller, and MacIntyre, amongst others, to present the ethical and epistemological issues which are interwoven with Conrad's aesthetics.
Part 1 The modern temper. Part 2 The failure of myth: "Lord Jim"; "Nostromo"; "The Rescue". Part 3 The failure of metaphysics: "Heart of Darkness"; "Under Western Eyes"; "The Shadow Line". Part 4 The failure of textuality: "Chance"; "Victory"; "The Arrow of Gold".
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.8.1991 |
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Reihe/Serie | Oxford English Monographs |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 144 x 223 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-811785-X / 019811785X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-811785-8 / 9780198117858 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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