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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.
Ethics in literature --- Ethiek in de literatuur --- Ethique dans la littérature --- Kortverhaal --- Nouvelle --- Novelle --- Short story --- Subjectiviteit in de literatuur --- Subjectivity in literature --- Subjectivité dans la littérature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Short stories --- Story, Short --- Authorship --- Fiction --- History and criticism --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Conrad, Joseph --- Criticism and interpretation --- England --- Conrad, Joseph, - 1857-1924 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) --- Modernisme (littéraure) --- Morale --- Subjectivité --- Critique et interprétation --- Grande-Bretagne --- Dans la littérature
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Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little-recognised figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford and Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures who, by crossing the shifting, permeable boundaries of bourgeois domesticity, highlighted the limits of conventional masculinity. The very marginality of the figure, Snyder argues, effects a critique of gendered norms of manhood, while the symbolic function of marriage as a means of plot resolution is also made more complex by the presence of the single man. Bachelor figures made, moreover, an ideal narrative device for male authors who themselves occupied vexed cultural positions. By attending to the gendered identities and relations at issue in these narratives, Snyder's study discloses the aesthetic and political underpinnings of the traditional canon of English and American male modernism.
American fiction --- Bachelors in literature. --- English fiction --- Masculinity in literature. --- First person narrative. --- Men in literature. --- Narrative, First person --- Fiction --- Literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- English literature --- Male authors --- History and criticism. --- Technique --- Conrad, Joseph, --- James, Henry, --- Dzheĭms, G. --- Dzheĭms, Genri, --- Jeimsŭ, Henri, --- Джеймс, Генри, --- ג׳יימס, הנרי, --- ג׳ײמס, הנרי, --- Τζειος, Χενρι, --- جميس، هينري، --- جيمز، هنرى --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Characters --- Bachelors. --- English-speaking countries --- Intellectual life --- Arts and Humanities --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Masculinity in literature --- First person narrative --- Men in literature --- American literature --- James, Henry --- Bachelors --- Bachelors in literature --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Conrad, Joseph --- Mitchell, Donald Grant --- Brontë, Emily
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Sociology of literature --- Psychological study of literature --- Conrad, Joseph --- 820 "19" CONRAD, JOSEPH --- Literature and society --- -Modernism (Literature) --- -Psychological fiction, English --- -Social problems in literature --- English psychological fiction --- English fiction --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--CONRAD, JOSEPH --- History --- -History and criticism --- Social aspects --- -Criticism and interpretation --- 820 "19" CONRAD, JOSEPH Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--CONRAD, JOSEPH --- -Korzeniowski, Joźef --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph --- Criticism and interpretation --- Modernism (Literature) --- Psychological fiction, English --- Social problems in literature --- History and criticism --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- CONRAD (JOSEPH), 1857-1924 --- LITERATURE AND SOCIETY --- PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION, ENGLISH --- ENGLAND --- HISTORY --- 20th CENTURY
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