Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad's Novels
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Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad's Novels

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Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad's Novels

About this book

Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad s Novels sets out to revolutionize our reading of Joseph Conrad s works and challenge the critical heritage that accompanies them. Levin identifies the emergence of an aesthetic principle in Conrad s novels and theorizes that principle through the concept of the otherwise present, which Levin defines as that which provokes desire and perpetuates it by barring its appeasement. This book offers a detailed analysis of Lord Jim, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes, The Arrow of Gold and Suspense, alongside a poststructuralist-inspired explication of Conrad s literary vision and its defining principle. This study is an important source for both the newcomers and the initiated to Conrad s oeuvre.

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Year
2008
Print ISBN
9780230609860
eBook ISBN
9780230615793

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. 2 Seeing Otherwise: From Almayer’s Folly to Lord Jim
  7. 3 A Spectral Temporality: The History of Nostromo as Perpetual Return
  8. 4 Signifying Absences in Under Western Eyes
  9. 5 The Arrow of Gold: An Exercise in Procuring Absence
  10. 6 To End with Suspense
  11. 7 Conclusion
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. Index

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