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Joseph Conrad and Postcritique. Politics of Hope, Politics of Fear Jay Parker Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Jay Parker, Joyce Wexler, (Editors)

ISBN(s): 9783030724986, 3030724980

Edition: 1st ed. 2021

File Details: PDF, 2.58 MB

Year: 2021

Language: English

SKU: EB-46248108 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Politics, Society Tags: Hope], Jay Parker, Joyce Wexler, Politics

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Joseph Conrad and Postcritique
Politics of Hope, Politics of Fear

This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad’s 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 knowledge, affect, ethics, and politics that emerge from literature. The essays in this collection recognize the dark elements in Conrad’s fiction—deceit, vanity, avarice, lust, cynicism, and cruelty—yet they perceive hopefulness as well. Conrad’s skepticism unveils the dark heart of politics, and his critical heritage can feed our fear that humanity is incapable of improving. This Conrad is a well-known figure, but there is another, neglected Conrad that this book aims to bring to light, one who delves into the politics of hope as well as the politics of fear. Chapters 1 and 2 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Finding Hope—Recuperative Reading, Reparative Reading
2. Quixotic Conrad: Betrayal, Conversion, and Flight
3. “The new sun is rising”: Conrad, Women, and Hope
Part II. Understanding the Politics of Fear
4. Doubling Down on the Politics of Fear, Opening Up the Politics of Hope
5. Joseph Conrad’s “Strange Air of Finality”: Negative Affect and the Politics of Fear in “The Tale”
6. “Pulsating Wrongfully”: Critique, Cliché, and The Secret Agent
Part III. Ethics and Aesthetics
7. “Heart of Darkness” and the Memory of the Holocaust
8. The Beating Heart of Sublime Empire: The Secret Agent as Sequel to “Heart of Darkness”
9. Cross-cultural Accord in the Malay Fiction: The Performative Politics of Conrad’s Eastern World
10. “Some Knowledge of Yourself”: “Heart of Darkness” in the Twenty-First-Century Literature Classr

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