UnknownParker, Jay
Springer International Publishing (Cham, Switzerland , 2021) (eng) English9783030724993Unknown1st ed.POLITICS AND LITERATURE; UnknownThis book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad’s central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lord Jim. Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique ascribes positive value to the knowledge, affect, ethics, and politics that emerge from literature. The essays in this collection recognize the dark elements in Conrad’s fiction—deceit, vanity, avarice, lust, cynicism, and cruelty—yet they perceive hopefulness as well. Conrad’s skepticism unveils the dark heart of politics, and his critical heritage can feed our fear that humanity is incapable of improving. This Conrad is a well-known figure, but there is another, neglected Conrad that this book aims to bring to light, one who delves into the politics of hope as well as the politics of fear.
Physical dimension
1 online resource (xv, 233 p.)UnknownUnknown
Summary / review / table of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Finding HopeRecuperative Reading, Reparative Reading
Chapter 2: Quixotic Conrad: Betrayal, Conversion, and Flight, Jay Parker
Chapter 3: "The new sun is rising": Conrad, Women, and Hope, Rachel Hollander
Part II: Understanding the Politics of Fear
Chapter 4: Doubling Down on the Politics of Fear, Opening Up the Politics of Hope, Joyce Wexler
Chapter 5: Joseph Conrad's "Strange Air of Finality" : Negative Affect and the Politics of Fear in "The Tale", Jarica Linn Watts
Chapter 6: "Pulsating Wrongfully":Critique, Cliche, and The Secret Agent, James Brophy
Part III: Ethics and Aesthetics
Chapter 7: "Heart of Darkness" and the Memory of the Holocaust, Riccardo Capoferro
Chapter 8: The Beating Heart of Sublime Empire: The Secret Agent as Sequel to "Heart of Darkness", Jana M. Giles
Chapter 9: Cross-cultural Accord in the Malay Fiction: The Performative Politics of Conrads Eastern World, Mark Deggan
Chapter 10: "Some Knowledge of Yourself": "Heart of Darkness" in the Twenty-First Century Literature ClassroomAn Ethical Approach, Anna Lindhe