Joseph Conrad and postcritique : politics of hope, politics of fear /
This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrads 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 know...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Jay Parker and Joyce Wexler
- Part I. Finding Hope-Recuperative Reading, Reparative Reading. Quixotic Conrad: Betrayal, Conversion and Flight / Jay Parker
- "The new sun is rising": Conrad, Women and Hope / Rachel Hollander
- Part II. Understanding the Politics of Fear. Doubling Down on the Politics of Fear, Opening Up the Politics of Hope / Joyce Wexler
- Joseph Conrad's "Strange Air of Finality": Negative Affect and the Politics of Fear in "The Tale / Jarica Linn Watts
- "Pulsating Wrongfully": Critique, Cliche, and The Secret Agent / James Brophy - Part III. Ethics and Aesthetics. "Heart of Darkness" and the Memory of the Holocaust / Riccardo Capoferro
- The Beating Heart of Sublime Empire: The Secret Agent as Sequel to "Heart of Darkness" / Jana M. Giles
- Cross-cultural Accord in the Malay Fiction: The Performative Politics of Conrad's Eastern World / Mark Deggan
- "Some Knowledge of Yourself": "Heart of Darkness" in the Twenty-First-Century Literature Classroom - An Ethical Approach / Anna Lindhé.
