Polish, hybrid, and otherwise : exilic discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz / George Z. Gasyna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gasyna, George Z.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.

Conrad, Joseph.

Gombrowicz, Witold--Criticism and interpretation.

Gombrowicz, Witold.

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 276 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2011.

Summary:

Gasyna (Slavic languages and literatures, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) negotiates questions of identity, language, and the experience of expatriation in Conrad (1857-1924) Gombrowicz (1904-96) by addressing two issues. One is their games with identity that helped make both of them intensely interesting, but also the exasperating figures that they are to literary scholars and biographers alike. The other is the location of their narratives both within the taxonomy of exilic discourse, and along the continuum of modernist and postmodernist poetics. Among his topics are the spaces and trajectories of exile, life writing, and the conditional narrativity of Cosmos. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Condition Known as Exile 19

Chapter 2 Crossing the Thresholds of Modernist Discourse 52

Chapter 3 Life Writing 93

Chapter 4 Toward Heterotopia: The Case of Trans-Atlantyk 144

Chapter 5 Imagined Nations, Fractured Narrations: The Politics of Language and Poetics of Territoriality in Nostromo 179

Chapter 6 The Conditional Narrativity of Cosmos 220.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441140791

1441140794

OCLC:

657602650