
From Sight through to In-Sight : Time, Narrative and Subjectivity in Conrad and Ford.
Title:
From Sight through to In-Sight : Time, Narrative and Subjectivity in Conrad and Ford.
Author:
Sabbagh, Omar.
ISBN:
9789401210317
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Series:
Costerus NS ; v.201
Costerus NS
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PROLOGUE A WILDERNESS TO HIMSELF -- INTRODUCTION LOVE BEYOND THE ENDS -- CHAPTER ONE TEMPORAL EXPERIENCE IN CONRAD'S NOSTROMO -- CHAPTER TWO SUPERIMPOSED PASTS IN FORD'S FIFTH QUEEN -- CHAPTER THREE THE METAPHORIZATION OF "DOWELL" -- CHAPTER FOUR FORD'S PARADE'S END: A SURGEON ON TIME -- CONCLUSION THE SALUTARY WEIGHT OF OBJECTIVITY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
An interdisciplinary study of the Impressionist/early Modernist works of Conrad and Ford, this book aims to show how the represented temporalities (whether to do with past, present, future experience within and without the novels, or logical/structural relations of 'before' and 'after') are at the core of the won effects of both authors' oeuvres. Looking at such well-known works as Nostromo, The Good Soldier, The Fifth Queen, Parade's End, the study makes use of philosophy (historical and contemporary), theology, psychoanalysis, and other sources, to re-describe, unlock and display the fertile ways in which time and historical experience are both manumitted within the tales analysed, and, recursively, within their reading experience. Ultimately, the two senses of 'making you see', from Conrad's iconic Preface, are used as gambits to understand the ways in which these novels are metaphysically vibrant, symbolically hopeful- as against the more common interpretation of metaphysical dissolution and (over-determined) failure.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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