Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography
Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and Africa, projects political dimensions in his work that mirror a colonialist preoccupation with civilizing native peoples. Said then suggests that this dimension should be considered when reading all of Western literature. First published in 1966, Sai…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-51154-4
- EAN: 9780231511544
- Produktnummer: 22651270
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'034 KB
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Edward W. Said. Foreword by Andrew N. Rubin
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