TY - BOOK ID - 17526641 TI - Solitude versus solidarity in the novels of Joseph Conrad : political and epistemological implications of narrative innovation PY - 1998 SN - 0773516700 9786612854798 1282854798 0773566899 9780773566897 9780773516700 9781282854796 6612854790 PB - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Narration (Rhétorique) KW - Narrative writing KW - Verhaal (Retoriek) KW - Colonies in literature KW - Fiction KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Political fiction, English KW - Politics and literature KW - Self in literature KW - Solitude in literature KW - Fiction writing KW - Metafiction KW - Writing, Fiction KW - Authorship KW - Technique KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Conrad, Joseph, KW - Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, KW - Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, KW - Konrad, Dzhozef, KW - Kʻang-la-te, KW - Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, KW - Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, KW - Kʻonradŭ, Josep, KW - Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, KW - Kʻolladŭ, Josep, KW - Konrad, Dzd. KW - Conrad, Józef, KW - קונראד, ג׳וזף, KW - קונראד, ג׳וסף KW - קונרד, ג׳וזף KW - קונרד, ג׳וזף, KW - קונרד, יוסף KW - 康拉德, KW - Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, KW - Konrant, Tzozeph, KW - Political and social views. KW - Technique. KW - Conrad, Joseph KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Political and social views KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17526641 AB - Ursula Lord explores the manifestations in narrative structure of epistemological relativism, textual reflexivity, and political inquiry, specifically Conrad's critique of colonialism and imperialism and his concern for the relationship between self and society. The tension between solitude and solidarity manifests itself as a soul divided against itself; an individual torn between engagement and detachment, idealism and cynicism; a dramatized narrator who himself embodies the contradictions between radical individualism and social cohesion; a society that professes the ideal of shared responsibility while isolating the individual guilty of betraying the illusion of cultural or professional solidarity. Conrad's complexity and ambiguity, his conflicting allegiances to the ideal of solidarity versus the terrible insight of unremitting solitude, his grappling with the dilemma of private versus shared meaning, are intrinsic to his political and philosophical thought. The metanarrative focus of Conrad's texts intensifies rather than diminishes their philosophical and political concerns. Formal experimentation and epistemological exploration inevitably entail ethical and social implications. Lord relates these issues with intellectual rigour to the dialectic of individual liberty and collective responsibility that lies at the core of the modern moral and political debate. ER -