Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity

ISBN-13: 9781032383408 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Xiaoling Yao

Opis

Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity is the first major work that extensively explores the dynamic interplay between Conrad’s autobiographical remembering and storytelling in relation to his identity construction within a historical and cultural context.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Poetic Rememberer: Contextualizing Conrad’s Work of Remembering

Chapter One: Future-oriented Remembering: Almayer’s Folly and A Personal Record

Chapter Two: Memory as An Interpretative Feat: "An Outpost of Progress," Heart of Darkness and the Other

Chapter Three: Community-mediated Memory: Remembering Lord Jim

Chapter Four: Emotion-mediated Memory: The Conflation of Past and Present in The Shadow-Line

Conclusion: Towards a New Metaphor of Memory

O autorze

Xiaoling Yao is Lecturer of English at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. She obtained her PhD in English Literature from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include memory, narrative identity, spatiality, and modernist literature and culture.