Conrad''s Eastern Vision - A Vain and Floating Appearance

Informationen zum Autor AGNES S. K. YEOW teaches English at the University of Malay in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Klappentext This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision. Zusammenfassung This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories! arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times! Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology Glossary Map Introduction The Collision of Indistinct Ideas Patusan and the Malays The Rest of that Pantai Band A Vain and Floating Appearance Coda Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: A Yeow, A. Yeow, Agnes S. K. Yeow, Agnes Swee Kim Yeow
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2008
• EAN: 9780230545298
• ISBN: 978-0-230-54529-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, English, Fiction, English Language, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, World Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Germanic Languages, Fiction Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Asia—History