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Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper (Hardcover)
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Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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This study relates Conrad's work to the cultural crisis of the late
nineteenth century, the post-Nietzschean phase of modernity. It
discusses "faultlines"-- ambiguities and apparent aesthetic
ruptures-- in nine of the major novels and novellas. These
faultlines are diagnosed as the symptoms of an unresolved tension
between Conrad's temperamental affinity with the Nietzschean
outlook and his fierce ideological rejection of its ultimate
implications. Presenting Conrad as a modernist at war with
modernity, the author studies the perpetual tug-of-war between the
artistic will to meaning and the writer's susceptibility to the
modern temper, both as a theme and as a structuring principle in
his work. The modes of this struggle are defined as the failure of
myth, the failure of metaphysics, and the failure of textuality.
This forceful and original book draws on the work of Nietzsche,
Valhinger, Bakhtin, Heller, MacIntyre, and other philosophers and
cultural historians to present the ethical and epistemological
issues which are interwoven with Conrad's aesthetics.
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