Joseph Conrad and postcritique : politics of hope, politics of fear / Jay Parker, Joyce Wexler, editors.
Parker, Jay, editor.; Wexler, Joyce Piell, 1947- editor.
2021
PR6005.O4 Z65 2021
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Title Joseph Conrad and postcritique : politics of hope, politics of fear / Jay Parker, Joyce Wexler, editors.
ISBN 9783030724993 (electronic bk.)
3030724999 (electronic bk.)
9783030724986
3030724980
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72499-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-72499-3 doi
Call Number PR6005.O4 Z65 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.912
Summary This collection of essays is a significant contribution to both Conrad studies and the critique / postcritique debate. Through a series of original, insightful and pertinently suggestive critical essays, focussed largely on canonical works by Conrad (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and The Secret Agent), it constitutes a paradigm shift in Conrad studies, while, at the same time, using Conrad as a case study, to demonstrate and explore a variety of postcritical approaches. Professor Robert Hampson, FEA, FRSA, Research Fellow, The Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrads 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 Conrads fictiondeceit, vanity, avarice, lust, cynicism, and crueltyyet they perceive hopefulness as well. Conrads 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. Jay Parker is Assistant Professor in the English Department of the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He has published articles on Conrad in relation to liberalism and to justice in Textual Practice, Law and Literature and The Conradian. He was awarded the Juliet McLauchlan Prize in 2012 and the Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award in 2015 for his research on Conrad, and is fiction editor of the Hong Kong Review of Books, as well as Advisory Editor for The Conradian. He is currently completing a book on Conrad and Liberalism. Joyce Wexler is Professor Emerita of English at Loyola University Chicago, USA. She is the author of Violence without God: The Rhetorical Dilemma of Twentieth-Century Writers (2016), Who Paid for Modernism? Art, Money, and the Fiction of Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence (1997), Laura Riding: A Bibliography (1981), and Laura Ridings Pursuit of Truth (1979). She currently serves as President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Finding HopeRecuperative Reading, Reparative Reading
Chapter 2: Quixotic Conrad: Betrayal, Conversion, and Flight, Jay Parker
Chapter 3: "The new sun is rising": Conrad, Women, and Hope, Rachel Hollander
Part II: Understanding the Politics of Fear
Chapter 4: Doubling Down on the Politics of Fear, Opening Up the Politics of Hope, Joyce Wexler
Chapter 5: Joseph Conrad's "Strange Air of Finality" : Negative Affect and the Politics of Fear in "The Tale", Jarica Linn Watts
Chapter 6: "Pulsating Wrongfully":Critique, Cliche, and The Secret Agent, James Brophy
Part III: Ethics and Aesthetics
Chapter 7: "Heart of Darkness" and the Memory of the Holocaust, Riccardo Capoferro
Chapter 8: The Beating Heart of Sublime Empire: The Secret Agent as Sequel to "Heart of Darkness", Jana M. Giles
Chapter 9: Cross-cultural Accord in the Malay Fiction: The Performative Politics of Conrads Eastern World, Mark Deggan
Chapter 10: "Some Knowledge of Yourself": "Heart of Darkness" in the Twenty-First Century Literature ClassroomAn Ethical Approach, Anna Lindhe.

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