Joseph Conrad and the Reader [electronic resource] : Questioning Modern Theories of Narrative and Readership /
Acheraïou, A.author.
Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limits of deconstructionist theories, introducing groundbreaking new theoretical concepts of reading and reception.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Machine generated contents note: List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Conrad's Conception of Authorship: Probing the Implications and Limits of the Death-of-the-author Theory PART II: RECEPTION THEORY: READING AS A CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT Polish Responses: Art and the Ethics of Collectivity British Reception: Englishness and the Act of Reading PART III: AESTHETIC RAMIFICATIONS, NARRATIVE ENTANGLEMENTS & FICTIONAL READERS Conrad's Visual Aesthetics: Classical and Modern ConnectionsA Cartography of Conrad's Fictional Readers: Reading Hierarchy in Lord Jim, 'Heart of Darkness', Nostromo and Victory Narrative Solidarity and Competition for Truth and SignificationConrad and the Construction of the Reader: Tension between Democratic Vision and Aristocratic LeaningNarrative Self-Consciousness and the Act of Reading: Examining Under Western Eyes through the Lens of Fielding's, Sterne's and Diderot's PoeticsConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex.
Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limits of deconstructionist theories, introducing groundbreaking new theoretical concepts of reading and reception.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Literature-Philosophy.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Fiction.
British literature.
European literature.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
European Literature.