Conrad's Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture) - Tapa blanda

Libro 33 de 54: Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture

Lawtoo, Nidesh

 
9781611862188: Conrad's Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture)
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ISBN 10: 1611862183 ISBN 13: 9781611862188
Editorial: Michigan State University Press, 2016

Sinopsis

Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths? Drawing on an anti-Platonic tradition in critical theory, Lawtoo adopts ethical, anthropological, and philosophical lenses to offer new readings of Joseph Conrad’s novels and the postcolonial and cinematic works that respond to his oeuvre. He argues that Conrad’s fascination with doubles urges readers to reflect on the two sides of mimesis: one side is dark and pathological, and involves the escalation of violence, contagious epidemics, and catastrophic storms; the other side is luminous and therapeutic, and promotes communal survival, postcolonial reconciliation, and plastic adaptations to changing environments. Once joined, the two sides reveal Conrad as an author whose Janus-faced fictions are powerfully relevant to our contemporary world of global violence and environmental crisis.

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Nidesh Lawtoo is Visiting Scholar in the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University with a research fellowship granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Editorial
Michigan State University Press
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1611862183
ISBN 13 
9781611862188
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Número de páginas
464
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