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基本説明
In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance, the author argues that Conrad's engagement with the genre invigorated his work throughout his career.
Full Description
In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance, Katherine Baxter argues that Conrad's engagement with the genre invigorated his work throughout his career. Exploring the ways in which Conrad borrows from, alludes to, and subverts the tropes of romance, Baxter suggests that Conrad's ambivalent relationship with popular forms like the adventure novel is revealed in the way he uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations and make visible ethical problems with Europe's colonial project. Baxter examines not only familiar novels like "Lord Jim" but also less-studied works such as "Romance" and "The Rover", using Robert Miles' model of the 'philosophical romance' to show that for Conrad, romance is also philosophically engaged with issues of ideology. Her study enables a new appreciation of the ways in which Conrad continued to experiment, even in his later fiction, and of the ethical import of that aesthetic experimentation.
Contents
Introduction; Section 1 'Heart of Darkness' and Lord Jimdarkness' and the modern quest; Lord Jim: other words, other worlds.; Section 2 Romance, Nostromo, and Chance: Anti-philosophical Romance; Nostromo: not the man; Power, gender and laughter in Chance.; Section 3 Victory, The Rescue, and The Rover: Victory: 'damned tricks' and girls; Theatre and incomprehension in The Rescue; The Rover: reconciliation of sorts; Bibliography; Index.
