TY - BOOK ID - 2744366 TI - The strange short fiction of Joseph Conrad : writing, culture, and subjectivity PY - 1999 SN - 0198184999 0191674427 PB - New York Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Ethics in literature KW - Ethiek in de literatuur KW - Ethique dans la littérature KW - Kortverhaal KW - Nouvelle KW - Novelle KW - Short story KW - Subjectiviteit in de literatuur KW - Subjectivity in literature KW - Subjectivité dans la littérature KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Short stories KW - Story, Short KW - Authorship KW - Fiction 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 - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Conrad, Joseph KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - England KW - Conrad, Joseph, - 1857-1924 - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) KW - Modernisme (littéraure) KW - Morale KW - Subjectivité KW - Critique et interprétation KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Dans la littérature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2744366 AB - This study engages with the troubled question of authorial subjectivity and ethics in Modernism in general and in Conrad's short fiction in particular, and offers an original theoretical perspective, inspired by the work of Derrida and the early philosophical writings of M. M. Bakhtin. Part One of the book focuses on the relational dynamics in 'Under Western Eyes' and 'The Secret Sharer', and develops a 'heterobiographical' reading matrix, which serves as a psycho-textual and philosophical approach to modes of authorial presence in the text. Part Two offers close readings of ten short stories spanning the whole of Conrad's career and clustered into five chapters--'Writing and Fratricide', 'The Pathos of Authenticity', 'The Poetics of Cultural Despair', 'The Romantic paradox', and 'Addressing the Woman'. This part of the book engages with the interpretative problems posed by these stories through a cultural-historical perspective, linking Conrad's essentially Romantic sensibility and his unique position on the threshold of Modernism with some of the issues that have emerged from the 'Postmodern turn': the relationship between metaphysics and subjectivity, the conception of inter-subjectivity as prior to and constitutive of subjectivity; the permeability of textual and psychological boundary-lines; and the desire for subjective aesthetization. These issues, which can all be traced back to the cultural crisis of the turn of the century, are still with us at the close of the millennium. ER -