Author: Dorothy Morgan HollowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imperialism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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A Study of Conrad and Faulkner
Author: Dorothy Morgan HollowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imperialism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of NonSense
Author: Maurice EbileeniPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501306618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Maurice Ebileeni explores the thematic and stylistic problems in the major novels of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner through Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theories. Against the background of the cultural, scientific, and historic changes that occurred at the turn of the 20th century, describing the landscape of ruins bequeathed to humanists by the forefathers of the Counter-Enlightenment movement (Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Baudelaire), Ebileeni proposes that Conrad and Faulkner wrote against impossible odds, metaphorically standing at the edge of a chaotic abyss that initially would spill over into the challenges of literary production. Both authors discovered that underneath, behind, or within the intuitively comprehensible narrative layers there exists a nonsensical dimension, constantly threatening to dissolve any attempt at producing intelligible meaning. Ebileeni argues that in Conrad's and Faulkner's major novels, the quest for meaning in confronting the prospects of nonsense becomes a necessary symptom of human experience to both avoid and engage the entropy of modern life.
A Conflict of Values
Author: Grażyna BrannyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The Limits of Metaphor
Author: James L. GuettiThe Life and the Art
Author: Keith CarabinePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004484981
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Life and the Art: A Study of Conrad's Under Western Eyes has a twofold origin. Over the past ten years, as an associate editor of the prospective Cambridge Edition of Under Western Eyes, the author, Keith Carabine, has worked on the genesis and composition of the novel in its several versions and on its literary, ideological, social, and historical contexts. At the same time during these years he has taught seminar courses on Conrad for undergraduates and on Conrad and Dostoevsky for postgraduates. This interpenetration of teaching and research constantly reminded the author that his many hours devoted to textual minutiae and manuscript variations or to a study of Conrad's Polish background should result not only in a scholarly edition of the novel in a book that will demonstrate the ways in which Conrad's life and his protracted, uncertain composition of the Under Western Eyes enrich his art; and the title of this book deliberately invokes Conrad's belief in the inseparability of the art and the life. This study's six chapters concentrate in different ways and with differing emphases on the complex inter-relations between the art and the life, on the intersections between Conrad's personal preoccupations, fictional aesthetic, and working practices with regard to what he described as without doubt ... the most deeply meditated novel that came from under my pen.
Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner
Author: Carl RollysonPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504029917
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Originally selected by Faulkner scholars Blotner and Litz for their series on the author, this pathbreaking monograph contains a comprehensive and provocative discussion of Faulkner’s historical vision. Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including the writings of R. G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield), and on a wide-ranging body of scholarship on the historical novel (including discussions of Scott, Thackeray, and Conrad), Rollyson shrewdly probes Faulkner’s dynamic and changing uses of the past. Also taking advantage of his own work as a biographer, Rollyson has updated, revised, and expanded his original book—extending his dialogue with recent Faulkner critics.
The Limits of Mataphor
Author: James L. GuettiConrad and Faulkner
Author: Rolin W. SidwellThe Literary Faulkner
Author: Emily Kuempel BradyThe Failure of the Imagination
Author: James Lawrence GuettiPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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