Joseph Conrad and the reader: questioning modern theories of narrative and readership

Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limitsof deconstructionist theories, introducing groundbreaking new theoretical concepts of reading and reception. INDICE: - List of Abbreviations - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES - Conrad's Conception of Authorship: Probing the Implications and Limits of the Death-of-the-author Theory - PART II: RECEPTION THEORY: READING AS A CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT - Polish Responses: Artand the Ethics of Collectivity - British Reception: Englishness and the Act of Reading - PART III: AESTHETIC RAMIFICATIONS, NARRATIVE ENTANGLEMENTS ; FICTIONAL READERS - Conrad's Visual Aesthetics: Classical and Modern Connections - A Cartography of Conrad's Fictional Readers: Reading Hierarchy in Lord Jim , 'Heart of Darkness', Nostromo and Victory - Narrative Solidarity and Competition for Truth and Signification - Conrad and the Construction of the Reader: Tension between Democratic Vision and Aristocratic Leaning - Narrative Self-Consciousness and the Act of Reading: Examining Under Western Eyes through the Lensof Fielding's, Sterne's and Diderot's Poetics - Conclusion - Notes - Works Cited - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-22811-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 21/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés