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Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance

Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance

In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance the author argues that Conrad's engagement with the genre invigorated his work throughout his career. Exploring the ways in which Conrad borrows from alludes to and subverts the tropes of romance the author suggests that Conrad's ambivalent relationship with popular forms like the adventure novel is revealed in the way he uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations and make visible ethical problems with Europe's colonial project. The author examines not only familiar novels like Lord Jim but also less-studied works such as Romance and The Rover using Robert Miles's model of the 'philosophical romance' to show that for Conrad romance is also philosophically engaged with issues of ideology. Her study enables a new appreciation of the ways in which Conrad continued to experiment even in his later fiction and of the ethical import of that aesthetic experimentation. | Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance

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Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)

Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)

The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study first published 1992 John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott Balzac Dickens George Eliot Flaubert James Ford and Conrad Rignall argues for an understanding of realism through the recurrent figure of the flneur. The flneur is the strolling spectator whose problematic vision both of and in the novel makes him the representative figure of the realist text. A significant contribution to the field this title will be of particular view to students of realism literary theory and comparative literature. | Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)

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Fiction & the Colonial Experience

Fiction & the Colonial Experience

British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the novelists of the first half of the 20th century. This study originally published in 1968 looks at five writers and their reaction to the Empire: Rudyard Kipling E. M. Forster Joseph Conrad Joyce Cary and Graham Greene. It shows how the romantic adventure stories of Kipling’s early days in which the indigenous population plays almost no part gave rise to the much more important novels of spiritual and moral conflict in which the stereotyped values of Empire are questioned. The decline of colonialism from its apogee in the 1880s within a relatively short period makes the novels discussed a compact group so that not only is the use of colonial material closely studied but its impact on the novelists themselves emerges clearly. This is an important study of a major literary theme linking modern literature and modern history at a vital point. | Fiction & the Colonial Experience

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The Art of Failure Conrad's Fiction

The Art of Failure Conrad's Fiction

Originally published in 1986 this is a powerful and original book. It offers textual interpretation of Conrad’s major work and articulates the subtlety and richness of his treatment of social-political institutions and of the forces that complicate and distort private and public life. Suresh Raval argues that the social-personal relations in Conrad’s fiction cannot be conceived apart from their existence in the political life of a community; but at the same time they cannot be accommodated institutionally. The author’s concern is with the problematic status of the self under various perspectives: experience and understanding (Heart of Darkness) an ethical ideal (Lord Jim) history (Nostromo) ideology (The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes) scepticism (Victory). What the self is remains ambiguous and elusive. Conrad’s fiction is concerned with exhibiting the failure of language but always as a result of an immense effort of language itself. As language undoes itself in the act of seeking utterance so Conrad’s fictional mode – romance – turns into the opposite of itself as it unfolds. Raval demonstrates that incompatible alternatives – intention and action thought and experience the individual and the social the logical and the contingent – are entangled with each other and how this entanglement works in the fiction. Raval’s exploration of Conrad’s scepticism shows why Conrad cannot be characterized as a political conservative or radical without distorting the complexity and seriousness of his reflection on society. For his scepticism is the product not just of intelligence but of intelligence conscious of its limitations and is thus able to make a devastating critique of the nihilism sometimes attributed to Conrad by critics. Only those who think that morality has to have a secure single foundation if it is to be real are pushed into regarding Conrad’s scepticism as a form of nihilism. Professor Raval’s important study brings philosophical and literary interests to bear on Conrad’s major fiction and illuminates those aspects of his art which have puzzled and fascinated his readers. It will be deservedly valued by those studying and teaching modern literature. | The Art of Failure Conrad's Fiction

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What is Colonialism?

What is Colonialism?

What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent work in cognitive science affective science and social psychology along with Marxism and related forms of analysis. Hogan begins with some fundamental conceptual distinctions such as the degree to which a group shares beliefs dispositions and skills versus the degree to which they share identification with a category. Building on these distinctions he defines colonialism in terms of political economic and cultural autonomy clarifying the nature of culture and autonomy particularly. He goes on to articulate an invaluable systematic account of the varieties of colonialism. The final chapters outline the motives of imperialists differentiating these from their ideological rationalizations and sketching the harms caused by colonialism. The book concludes by considering when or if one can achieve a genuinely postcolonial condition. Hogan illustrates these analyses by examining influential literary works—by European writers (such as Joseph Conrad) and by non-Europeans (such as Athol Fugard Kamala Markandaya and Wole Soyinka). This accessible and informative volume is the ideal resource for students and scholars interested in colonialism and empire.

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Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

In this pioneering study Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830 shaped the spatial imagination of Victorians with profound consequences for the novel of empire. Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire examines Presidential Addresses and reports of the Royal Geographical Society and demonstrates how geographical studies by explorers cartographers ethnologists medical topographers administrators and missionaries published by the RGS local geographical societies or the colonial state acquired relevance for Victorian fiction’s response to the British Empire. Through a series of illuminating readings of literary works by R. L. Stevenson Olive Schreiner Flora Annie Steel Winwood Reade Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling the study demonstrates how nineteenth-century fiction published between 1870 and 1901 reflected and interrogated geographical discourses of the time. The study makes the case for the significance of physical and human geography for literary studies and the unique historical and aesthetic insights gained through this approach. | Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

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Sociological Theories of Health and Illness

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness reviews the evolution of theory in medical sociology beginning with the field’s origins in medicine and extending to its present-day standing as a major sociological subdiscipline. Sociological theory has an especially important role in the practice of medical sociology because its theories distinguish the subdiscipline from virtually all other scientific fields engaged in the study of health and illness. The focus is on contemporary theory because it applies to contemporary conditions; however since theory in sociology is often grounded in historical precedents and classical foundations this material is likewise included as it relates to medical sociology today. This book focuses on the most commonly used sociological theories in the study of health and illness illustrating their utility in current examples of empirical research on a wide range of topics. The qualitative or quantitative research methods applicable to specific theories are also covered. Distinctions between macro and micro-level levels of analysis and the relevance of the agency-structure dichotomy inherent in all theories in sociology are discussed. Beginning with classical theory (Durkheim Weber and Marx) and the neglected founders (Gilman Martineau and DuBois) along with symbolic interaction (Mead Strauss) and labeling theory (Becker) and poststructuralism and postmodernism (Foucault) coverage is extended to contemporary medical sociology. Discussion of the stress process model (Pearlin) is followed by the social construction of gender and race and intersectionality theory (Collins) health lifestyle theory (Cockerham) life course theory (Elder) fundamental cause theory (Link and Phelan) and theories of the medical profession (Freidson) medicalization and biomedicalization (Conrad Clarke) and social capital (Bourdieu Putnam and Lin).

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The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse

The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse

The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One: Revelation and Apocalypse is the first volume fully annotated of a major previously unpublished two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905–1960). It was written between 1934 and 1940 after Neumann then a young philosopher and physician and freshly trained as a disciple of Jung fled Berlin to settle in Tel Aviv. He finished the second volume of this work at the end of World War II. Although he never published either volume he kept them the rest of his life. The challenge of Jewish survival frames Neumann’s work existentially. This survival he insists must be psychological and spiritual as much as physical. In Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse he argues that modern Jews must relearn what ancient Jews once understood but lost during the Babylonian Exile: that is the individual capacity to meet the sacred directly to receive revelation and to prophesy. Neumann interprets scriptural and intertestamental (apocalyptic) literature through the lens of Jung’s teaching and his reliance on the work of Jung is supplemented with references to Buber Rosenzweig and Auerbach. Including a foreword by Nancy Swift Furlotti and editorial introduction by Ann Conrad Lammers readers of this volume can hold for the first time the unpublished work of Neumann with useful annotations and insights throughout. These volumes anticipate Neumann’s later works including Depth Psychology and a New Ethic The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Great Mother. His signature contribution to analytical psychology the concept of the ego–Self axis arises indirectly in Volume One folded into Neumann’s theme of the tension between earth and YHWH. This unique work will appeal to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists in training and in practice historians of psychology Jewish scholars biblical historians teachers of comparative religion as well as academics and students. | The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse

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Marxism Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique Critical Engagements with Benita Parry

Marxism Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique Critical Engagements with Benita Parry

Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies Marxist literary criticism and world literature in the contemporary moment seeking to re-imagine the field and alongside it new possibilities for left critique. It is the first volume of essays focusing on the field-defining intellectual legacy of the literary scholar Benita Parry. As a leading critic of the post-structuralist turn within postcolonial studies Parry has not only brought Marxism and postcolonial theory into a productive albeit tense dialogue but has reinvigorated the field by bringing critical questions of resistance and struggle to bear on aesthetic forms. The book’s aim is two-fold: first to evaluate Parry’s formative influence within postcolonial studies and its interface with Marxist literary criticism and second to explore new terrains of scholarship opened up by Parry’s work. It provides a critical overview of Parry’s key interventions such as her contributions to colonial discourse theory; her debate with Spivak on subaltern consciousness and representation; her critique of post-apartheid reconciliation and neoliberalism in South Africa; her materialist critique of writers such as Kipling Conrad and Salih; her work on liberation theory resistance and radical agency; as well as more recent work on the aesthetics of peripheral modernity. The volume contains cutting-edge work on peripheral aesthetics the world-literary system critiques of global capitalism and capitalist modernity and the resurgence of Marxism communism and liberation theory by a range of established and new scholars who represent a dissident and new school of thought within postcolonial studies more generally. It concludes with the first-ever detailed interview with Benita Parry about her activism political commitments and her life and work as a scholar. | Marxism Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique Critical Engagements with Benita Parry

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The Correspondence of H.G. Wells Volume 2 1904–1918

The Correspondence of H.G. Wells Volume 2 1904–1918

This collection of H. G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2 000 letters and while a few are business – to publishers agents and secretaries – the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and A. J. Balfour to persons such as ‘Mark Benney’ who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many female friends and lovers among them Rebecca West Eileen Power Gertrude Stein Marie Stopes Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy Richardson. For example a letter from Moura Budberg with whom Wells had a long-standing affair which announces that she is pregnant by him and about to have an abortion reveals how an advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed correspondence with the press particularly during the two World Wars and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love socialism birth control the Fabian Society and the nature of the curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included. Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small selection of about 40 letters to Wells where letters from him are not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester Joseph Conrad C. G. Jung Trotsky Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who attempted suicide in Wells's flat) and J. C. Smuts. The letters are arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878–1900; Volume 2 1901–1912; Volume 3 1913–1930; and Volume 4 1930–1946. H. G. Wells's works include The Time Machine (1895) The Invisible Man (1897) The War of the Worlds (1898) The History of Mr Polly (1910) and A Short History of the World (1922). | The Correspondence of H. G. Wells Volume 2 1904–1918

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