Space, Conrad, and modernity

Space, Conrad, and modernity / Con Coroneos.

Recent literary and cultural criticism is concerned with space. The author uses the work of Joseph Conrad to unravel and explore aspects of spatial thought culminating in the influence of Saussurean linguistics in contemporary criticism and theory.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coroneos, Con
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Criticism and interpretation.
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924
Space and time in literature.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature)
Space and time in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Such a cruel knowledge
  • Millenarian geography
  • The view from everywhere
  • Heartless modernism
  • Enucleation: the secret agent
  • Anarchist geography
  • Eagleton and espionage
  • The idiom of idiom neutral
  • Kreemo, Blaxo, Nostromo
  • Authentic creole
  • Before Babel
  • Mystical criticism
  • Modernism and the seance
  • 'Russianness'
  • The cult of heart of darkness
  • The night-time Saussure
  • Why Bergson laughs
  • Geometrophilia
  • Somnambulism
  • The bathos
  • Do the police have dreams?
  • The third man and dead space
  • Shadow -lines
  • Foucault and critique noire
  • Conclusion.

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