The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad: Writing, Culture, and Subjectivity

by Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan

Overview

Through an examination of short stories spanning Joseph Conrad's entire writing career, Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan engages with the question of authorial subjectivity and ethics in Modernism. Part One establishes an original theoretical matrix, which turns on the principle of 'heterobiography'. Part Two applies this cultural-historical perspective through close readings of ten of Conrad's short stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198184997
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/16/2000
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Haifa

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I: On the Edge of the SubjectThe Heterobiography of Joseph K. ConradThe Seductions of the AestheticPart II: The Strange Short FictionWriting and FratricideThe Pathos of AuthenticityThe Poetics of Cultural DespairThe Romantic ParadoxAddressing the WomanCoda: Re-enter the ReaderIndex