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Space, Conrad, and modernity
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coroneos, Con, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Space and time in literature.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 199 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I Closed Space
- I. SUCH A CRUEL KNOWLEDGE
- Millenarian geography
- The view from everywhere
- z. HEARTLESS MODERNISM
- Enucleation: The Secret Agent
- Anarchist geography
- Eagleton and espionage
- 3. THE IDIOM OF IDIOM NEUTRAL
- Kreemo, Blaxo, Nostromo
- Authentic creole
- Before Babel
- Part II Language to Infinity
- 4. MYSTICAL CRITICISM
- Modernism and the seance
- 'Russianness'
- The cult of Heart of Darkness
- The night-time Saussure
- 5. WHY BERGSON LAUGHS
- Geometrophilia
- Somnambulism
- The bathos
- 6. DO THE POLICE HAVE DREAMS?
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191674716 (ebook) :
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