Space, Conrad, and modernity
By: Con Coroneos.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Saussure, Ferdinand de, 1857-1913; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Space and time in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I Closed Space; title: I. SUCH A CRUEL KNOWLEDGE; title: Millenarian geography; title: The view from everywhere; title: z. HEARTLESS MODERNISM; title: Enucleation: The Secret Agent; title: Anarchist geography; title: Eagleton and espionage; title: 3. THE IDIOM OF IDIOM NEUTRAL; title: Kreemo, Blaxo, Nostromo; title: Authentic creole; title: Before Babel; title: Part II Language to Infinity; title: 4. MYSTICAL CRITICISM; title: Modernism and the seance; title: 'Russianness'; title: The cult of Heart of Darkness; title: The night-time Saussure; title: 5. WHY BERGSON LAUGHS; title: Geometrophilia; title: Somnambulism; title: The bathos; title: 6. DO THE POLICE HAVE DREAMS?; title: Bibliography.