Conrad's Eastern Vision: A Vain and Floating Appearance

ISBN-13: 9780230545298 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 236 str.

Agnes Swee Kim Yeow

Opis

This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories and argues that it is precisely in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. The dialogism of Conrad's East resists any finalising meaning and its loophole lies in subjective vision. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage even as he stresses the veracity of his own Eastern vision.

Spis treści

Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology Glossary Map Introduction The Collision of Indistinct Ideas Patusan and the Malays The Rest of that Pantai Band A Vain and Floating Appearance Coda Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

AGNES S. K. YEOW teaches English at the University of Malay in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.