Freedman William Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge 9781611173062

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Автор: Freedman William
Название: Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781611173062
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 161117306X
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 200
Вес: 0.42 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2014
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations, frontispiece
Размер: 229 x 152 x 14
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marvelled at more routinely than Joseph Conrad for the perplexing evasiveness, contradictoriness, and indeterminacy of their fiction. William Freedman argues that the explanations typically offered for these identifying characteristics of much of Conrads work are inadequate if not mistaken. Freedmans claim is that the illusiveness of a coherent interpretation of Conrads novels and shorter fictions is owed not primarily to the inherent slipperiness or inadequacy of language or the consequence of a wilful self-deconstruction. Nor is it a product of the writers philosophical nihilism or a realized aesthetic of suggestive vagueness. Rather, Freedman argues, the perplexing elusiveness of Conrads fiction is the consequence of a pervasive ambivalence toward threatening knowledge, a protective reluctance and recoil that are not only inscribed in Conrads tales and novels, but repeatedly declared, defended, and explained in his letters and essays. Conrads narrators and protagonists often set out on an apparent quest for hidden knowledge or are drawn into one. But repelled or intimidated by the looming consequences of their own curiosity and fervour, they protectively obscure what they have barely glimpsed or else retreat to an armoury of practiced distractions. The result is a confusingly choreographed dance of approach and withdrawal, fascination and revulsion, revelation and concealment. The riddling contradictions of these fictions are thus in large measure the result of this ambivalence, their evasiveness the mark of intimidations triumph over fascination. The idea of dangerous and forbidden knowledge is at least as old as Genesis, and Freedman provides a background for Conrads recoil from full exposure in the rich admonitory history of such knowledge in theology, myth, philosophy, and literature. He traces Conrads impassioned, at times pleading case for protective avoidance in the writers letters, essays, and prefaces, and he elucidates its enactment and its connection to Conrads signature evasiveness in a number of short stories and novels, with special attention to The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Under Western Eyes, and The Rescue.

Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge, Freedman William