Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Concepts of Community - Strange Fraternity

Zusatztext Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community is a significant addition to emerging scholarship on new ways of reading Conrad in the twenty-first century ... This is a bold book, a welcome contribution to the critical endeavour to prove Conrad’s relevance today. Informationen zum Autor Kaoru Yamamoto is Associate Professor at the University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Vorwort This book explores the concept of community in the work of Joseph Conrad using Derrida and other continental philosophers. Zusammenfassung Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community uses Conrad’s phrase ‘strange fraternity’ from The Rover as a starting point for an exploration of the concept of community in his writing, including his neglected vignettes and later stories. Drawing on the work of continental thinkers including Jacques Derrida, Jean Luc-Nancy and Hannah Arendt, Yamamoto offers original readings of Heart of Darkness, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, The Rover and Suspense and the short stories “The Secret Sharer”, “The Warrior’s Soul” and “The Duel”. Working at the intersection between literature and philosophy, this is a unique and interdisciplinary engagement with Conrad’s work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Rescuing the Singular Plurality: ‘Who Comes After the Subject?’ Chapter Two: The Deaf Russian Finn in The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ Chapter Three: Marlow’s Ear: Acoustic Penetration into the Heart of Darkness Chapter Four: Hospitality in ‘The Secret Sharer’Chapter Five: (Dis)owning a Memory in ‘The Secret Sharer’ Chapter Six: ‘The Warrior’s Soul’ and the Question of ‘Community’ Chapter Seven: Responding in a Duel: History as Responsibility in ‘The Duel’Chapter Eight:‘Strange Fraternity’ in The Rover Chapter Nine: Toward a Possible ‘Partage’ of Memory: ‘History’ and ‘Solidarity’ in Suspense Conclusion Bibliography Index...

Product details

• Authors: Dr Kaoru (Associate Professor Yamamoto, Kaoru Yamamoto, Kaoru (Associate Professor Yamamoto
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781350090026
• ISBN: 978-1-350-09002-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form