One of Us
Subtitle: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780226316963
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 1857-1924; Conrad, Joseph,; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: "What I saw with my won eyes"-Joseph Conrad recalled in 1919, a half-century after the event-"was the public funeral" (PR viii).
Description: Joseph Conrad has traditionally been seen as a master - a master mariner, master storyteller, master of the secrets of the human heart, master of fictional technique. Recently, however, these compliments have given way to charges that Conrad is complicit in the various masteries associated with racism, imperialism, and the patriarchy. In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham inquires not only into Conrad's work and reputation, but also into the idea of mastery as such.