Space, Conrad, and modernity
Coroneos, ConAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2002.
Recent literary and cultural criticism is concerned with space. The author uses the work of Joseph Conrad to unravel and explore aspects of spatial thought culminating in the influence of Saussurean linguistics in contemporary criticism and theory.
Specialized.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Recent literary and cultural criticism is concerned with space. The author uses the work of Joseph Conrad to unravel and explore aspects of spatial thought culminating in the influence of Saussurean linguistics in contemporary criticism and theory.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specialized.
Machine generated contents note: Part I Closed Space -- I. SUCH A CRUEL KNOWLEDGE -- Millenarian geography -- The view from everywhere -- z. HEARTLESS MODERNISM -- Enucleation: The Secret Agent -- Anarchist geography -- Eagleton and espionage -- 3. THE IDIOM OF IDIOM NEUTRAL -- Kreemo, Blaxo, Nostromo -- Authentic creole -- Before Babel -- Part II Language to Infinity -- 4. MYSTICAL CRITICISM -- Modernism and the seance -- 'Russianness' -- The cult of Heart of Darkness -- The night-time Saussure -- 5. WHY BERGSON LAUGHS -- Geometrophilia -- Somnambulism -- The bathos -- 6. DO THE POLICE HAVE DREAMS? -- Bibliography.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Modernism (Literature)
Space and time in literature
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature