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Conrad's 'Heart of darkness' and contemporary thought : revisiting the horror with Lacoue-Labarthe /
With its innovative narrative structure and its controversial explorations of race, gender and empire, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a landmark of 20th century literature that continues to resonate to this day. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of conte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Notes; Introduction: 'An emotion of thought'; Encounters; The moon and the halo; The chorus; Notes; Prologue: Revisiting 'Heart of Darkness Revisited' (in the company of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe); Notes; Part 1: Mythic Darkness; Chapter 1: Heart of Darkness revisited; Notes; Chapter 2: Modernism, myth and Heart of Darkness; Notes; Chapter 3: Civilization and its darkness; Degeneration; Perversion; Primeval density; The metaphysics of oblivion; Notes; Part 2: Conrad avec Lacoue-Labarthe.
- Chapter 4: A frame for 'The Horror of the West'Philosopher-poet; Framing the frame; Mythic mimesis; Western barbarity; Notes; Chapter 5: The horror of the West; Notes; Chapter 6: Philippe's lessons of darkness; The darkness of a sacrificial heart; Coda: The darkness at the heart of genocide; Notes; Part 3: The Affect of Ideology; Chapter 7: La lettre, Lacan, Lacoue-Labarthe: Heart of Darkness redux1; Social organization; Family romance; Notes; Chapter 8: The voice of darkness; The textual voice as literary artefact; Pardon my French: The linguistic conundrum as textual voice.
- Ideological darkness versus textual voiceNotes; Chapter 9: The horror of trauma: Mourning or melancholia in Heart of Darkness?; Affective politics: Kurtz's myth and Marlow's response; The assertion of melancholia; Notes; Part 4: The Echo of the Horror; Chapter 10: Conrad's Dionysian elegy; Notes; Chapter 11: Sounding the hollow heart of the West: X-rays and the technique de la mort1; Body politics and the heart of the matter; Seeing through colonialism; The hollow body: Kurtz, Marlow and co.; Notes; Chapter 12: The horror of mimesis: Echoing Lacoue-Labarthe1; The mimetic frame.
- Mimetic sexism and colonial ideologyThe racist pathos of mimetic rhetoric; The barbarity of mimesis; Notes; Postface: A talk with Avital Ronell (about Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe)1; Notes; Bibliography; Index.