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Author Szczeszak-Brewer, Agata

Title Empire and pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce / Agata Szczeszak-Brewer ; foreword by Sebastian D.G. Knowles
Published Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 201 pages)
Series The Florida James Joyce series
Florida James Joyce series.
Contents Introduction -- Cosmogony and colonialism: charting non-places -- False gods of imperialism in Conrad -- "A free lay church in a free lay state": from the cosmogonic discourse to sacred secularism in Joyce's imagined community -- Tenuous itineraries -- "Circles, circles, circles": Conrad's pilgrimage -- Teleology without a telos: constitutive absence in Joyce's pilgrimage
Summary Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce offers a fresh look at these two modernist writers, revealing how their rejection of organized religion and the colonial presence in their native countries allowed them to destabilize traditional notions of power, colonialism, and individual freedom in their texts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 fast
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 fast
Subject Imperialism in literature.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Imperialism in literature
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813036625
0813036623
9780813038933
0813038936