| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Details, Doodles, Drawings, Delayed Decodings -- Part I Preprint Documents: Paper, Pen and Ink -- Chapter 1 Doodles and The Shadow-Line -- Chapter 2 Maps and Victory, ''Geography and Some Explorers,'' ''The Secret Sharer'' and An Outcast of the Islands -- Mapping Fact and Fiction: Overview and Background -- From Mind to Map: Critical Cartography -- Map and Text Correspondence -- Navigating Fiction -- Chapter 3 Drawings and The Sisters |
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The Unfinished Manuscript -- Conrad and Stephen -- Historical Context: The Advent of Modernism -- The Sisters: Beyond Chapter Seven -- Part II Published Texts: Working Method and Philosophy -- Chapter 4 Decoding and Heart of Darkness -- Delayed Miscoding -- A Hierarchy of Knowledge -- Names and Objects -- Binary Observations -- The Unbridgeable Gap -- Chapter 5 Distraction and Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes -- Between Whiles: Lord Jim and Distracted Narration -- Stevie's Shuffling Feet: The Secret Agent -- ''There goes my silver medal!'': Under Western Eyes |
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''The criminality of inefficiency'': Heart of Darkness -- ''Or -- or -- perhaps'': Exceptions and Compromises -- In Medias Distractionis: Conrad's Working Method -- Chapter 6 Details and The Secret Agent -- Part III Patterns and Preoccupations: Marginal Voices and Characters -- Chapter 7 Voices and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' -- Plot and Context -- The Simple and the Voiceless -- Cargo: ''the sordid inspiration of her pilgrimage'' -- The Heroism of Serving Coffee -- Chapter 8 Hats, Nostromo, ''The Secret Sharer'' and The Secret Agent -- The Centrality of Literary Hats |
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''The Secret Sharer'' and the Floppy Hat -- The Story of Things and Parts -- Nostromo, the Bersagliere and ''An immortal hero!'' -- The Displaced, Repurposed and Absent Hat -- Setting the Scene: Upturned Hat, Carving Knife, Pool of Blood -- Chapter 9 Animals, Heart of Darkness and ''The Planter of Malata'' -- The Dreamwork of Language -- ''Yes! Cat, dog'': Animal Metaphors and Similes in Context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"What are the fingerprints of Joseph Conrad's fiction? This richly illustrated book argues that Conrad's vibrant details set him apart as a writer and brings them from the margins to the center for study. With recently discovered primary sources - including drawings and maps in Conrad's own hand - this book travels widely across Conrad's fiction and explores its interest in marginal voices, characters and details. It produces a new picture of Conrad as a writer, and the first picture of Conrad as an amateur sketch artist. Introducing new critical vocabulary and applying new names from art history to Conrad studies, the book ranges across cartography, fashion, analytic philosophy, manuscript studies, and animal studies to discover Conrad as an artist operating across and between different media. Offered as a complement to the abstract approaches of much literary theory, this detail-driven and margin-focused monograph mirrors the characteristic granular nature of Conrad's fiction"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 25, 2022) |
| Subject |
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021044728 |
| ISBN |
9781009057905 |
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1009057901 |
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1009079379 |
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9781009079372 |
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