Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce [electronic resource] /
Szczeszak-Brewer, Agata.
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida,
2010.
Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce offers a fresh look at these two modernist writers, revealing how their rejection of organized religion and the colonial presence in their native countries allowed them to destabilize traditional notions of power, colonialism, and individual freedom in their texts.
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Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce offers a fresh look at these two modernist writers, revealing how their rejection of organized religion and the colonial presence in their native countries allowed them to destabilize traditional notions of power, colonialism, and individual freedom in their texts.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.
Cosmogony and colonialism: charting non-places -- False gods of imperialism in Conrad -- "A free lay church in a free lay state": from the cosmogonic discourse to sacred secularism in Joyce's imagined community -- Tenuous itineraries -- "Circles, circles, circles": Conrad's pilgrimage -- Teleology without a telos: constitutive absence in Joyce's pilgrimage.
Description based on print version record.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Imperialism in literature.