Nost/algia as a Mode of Reflection in the Autobiographical Narratives of Joseph Conrad and Henry James

ISBN-13: 9783631879597 / Twarda / 2023 / 244 str.

Sylwia Wojciechowska

Opis

Sylwia Janina Wojciechowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at Ignatianum Jesuit University in Krakow, Poland. She has published a monograph on the pastoral, co-edited a volume on William Shakespeare, and written articles on nostalgia, pastoral, and modernist prose.

Spis treści

Introduction - 1. The nostalgic design: Simple and complex nostalgia - 2. Auto/ bio/ graphical narration: Genre, mode, and nostalgia - 3. Bios: The world reference - 4. Autos: (Up)rootedness and the self - 5. Graphe: Writing oneself - Conclusion - References

O autorze

The book explores nost/algia as a complex structure of thought. Alongside theoretical concerns, nost/algia is discussed as a mode operating through the tensions in the images of the past. In reference to the pastoral and the Odyssey, the book examines the deployment of the mode in Joseph Conrad's and Henry James's autobiographical prose