This book offers a post-structuralist inspired explication of Conrad’ s literary vision and its defining feature, the aesthetic principle. INDICE: Abbreviations and Note on Quotations - Introduction - PART I: THE OTHERWISE PRESENT - The Otherwise-Present Aesthetic - PART II: SEEING OTHERWISE: FROM ALMAYER'S FOLLY TO LORD JIM - From Protagonist to Reader - Marlow - A Willingness to Remember - PART III: A SPECTRAL TEMPORALITY: THE HISTORY OF NOSTROMO AS PERPETUAL RETURN - Living with Ghosts - The Ahistory of b the Story also Goesb - PART IV: SIGNIFYING ABSENSES IN UNDER WESTERN EYES - Capitalizing on an Ellipsis - Silenced Exploits - Exorcising the Otherwise Present - PART V: 'THE ARROW OF GOLD': AN EXERCISE IN PROCURING ABSENCE - A Haunting Heroine: The Dictates of an b Irrealizable Desireb - Pompeii: A Paradigm of Disappearance - The Untold Story - PART VI: TO END WITH SUSPENSE - The Omni-wise Present - b A Solution by Rejectionb - To End Otherwise - Conclusion - Bibliography -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60986-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 16/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés