Conrad''s Shadow - Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory

Informationen zum Autor Nidesh Lawtoo is professor of Modern/Contemporary European Literature and Culture at Leiden University, Netherlands. He previously led the ERC project Homo Mimeticus: Theory and Criticism, and he is the author of several books inaugurating a new theory of mimesis at the intersection of philosophy, literature, and politics, including The Phantom of the Ego (2013), Conrad's Shadow (2016), (New)Fascism (2019), and Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious (2023). Klappentext Lawtoo offers new readings of Joseph Conrad's novels and the postcolonial and cinematic works that respond to his oeuvre. Lawtoo argues that Conrad's fascination with doubles urges readers to reflect on the two sides of mimesis, that once joined, reveal Conrad's Janus-faced fictions as powerfully relevant to our contemporary world of global violence and environmental crisis. Zusammenfassung 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;

Product details

• Authors: Nidesh Lawtoo
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781611862188
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-218-8
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies