The Inwardness of Things
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5805-5 (ISBN)
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The Inwardness of Things considers Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in an ancient and enduring quarrel between the poets and the philosophers. Beginning from the polemical poetics of his 1897 preface, Debra Romanick Baldwin focuses on Conrad’s distinctively poetic “inward” approach to truth – an inwardness that is found in lived experience, in language, and in the world beyond the individual.
The book traces Conrad’s poetic voice from the rhetoric of his private letters to the narrative techniques of his fiction and finally to his explicit engagement with abstract approaches to truth. Baldwin applies narrative and rhetorical analysis to Conrad’s private correspondence, showing how he encouraged fellow writers – John Galsworthy, Warrington Dawson, R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Ted Sanderson, and Edward Noble – to engage with the inwardness of their own experience. The book explores how Conrad crafted moments of narrative solidarity in his fictional narratives to evoke the experience of the inwardness of another, while also considering his explicit polemics against abstract approaches to truth-seeking.
Mindful of the colonial, late Victorian, Polish Romantic, and cosmopolitan contexts in which Conrad wrote, The Inwardness of Things nevertheless situates him in a broader human conversation that he himself invited and argues for the enduring value of his art.
Debra Romanick Baldwin is an associate professor of English at the University of Dallas.
List of Illustrations
A Note on Method
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One – Hidden Contingencies: Approaching Inwardness in the Rhetoric of the Private Letters
1. John Galsworthy: An Invitation to Dare
2. F. Warrington Dawson: A Lesson in the Lower Case
3. R.B. Cunninghame Graham: The Two Languages of Engagement
4. E.L. “Ted” Sanderson: A Humanizing Benediction
5. Edward Noble: Sensational Advice and the Poetic Faculty
Part Two – Crafting Inwardness: The Art of Narrative Solidarity
6. Temperament and the Aims of a Deliberate Art
7. The Difficulty of Telling in Heart of Darkness
8. Beneath the Masks of the “Narcissus”
9. “The Brute” Within
10. The Inwardness of a Simple Idea in “Prince Roman”
11. Looking More Deeply in The Secret Agent
12. Inwardness and Autocracy in Under Western Eyes
13. Conradian Eros and the Longing for Shared Understanding
Part Three – A Modern Voice in an Ancient Quarrel
14. Artist vs. Thinker
15. To Bertrand Russell from a Common Mortal
16. Thinkers Ancient and Modern in “The Planter of Malata” and Victory
17. Socrates Reimagined in Chance
18. The Quiet Success of “A Rather Simple Man” in “Typhoon”
Works Cited
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | 16 b&w illustrations |
Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 1 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4875-5805-8 / 1487558058 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-5805-5 / 9781487558055 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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