From sight through to in-sight : time, narrative and subjectivity in Conrad and Ford / Omar Sabbagh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sabbagh, Omar, author.

Series:

Costerus New Series 201.

Costerus new series ; 201

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

Conrad, Joseph.

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.

Ford, Ford Madox.

Time in literature.

Subjectivity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An interdisciplinary study of the Impressionist/early Modernist works of Conrad and Ford, this book aims to show how the represented temporalities (whether to do with past, present, future experience within and without the novels, or logical/structural relations of ‘before’ and ‘after’) are at the core of the won effects of both authors’ oeuvres. Looking at such well-known works as Nostromo, The Good Soldier, The Fifth Queen, Parade’s End , the study makes use of philosophy (historical and contemporary), theology, psychoanalysis, and other sources, to re-describe, unlock and display the fertile ways in which time and historical experience are both manumitted within the tales analysed, and, recursively, within their reading experience. Ultimately, the two senses of ‘making you see’, from Conrad’s iconic Preface, are used as gambits to understand the ways in which these novels are metaphysically vibrant, symbolically hopeful- as against the more common interpretation of metaphysical dissolution and (over-determined) failure.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

LOVE BEYOND THE ENDS: TEMPORAL EXPERIENCE OUT OF FORD AND CONRAD’S “CONTINUOUSLY DISCONTINUOUS” NARRATIVES

TEMPORAL EXPERIENCE IN CONRAD’S NOSTROMO: A “TRUSTING” NARRATIVE

SUPERIMPOSED PASTS IN FORD’S FIFTH QUEEN TRILOGY: KATHARINE HOWARD AS FORD’S DIALECTICAL IMAGE

FORD’S THE GOOD SOLDIER AND THE METAPHORIZATION OF “DOWELL”: A DIALECTICAL READING OF IMPRESSIONIST EQUIVOCATION

FORD’S PARADE’S END: FROM THE END AND THROUGH THE MIDDEST – A SURGEON ON TIME

RE-COGNITION AND THE SALUTARY WEIGHT OF (THE) OBJECT(IVITY)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 17, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-1031-4

OCLC:

878136873

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401210317 DOI