RT Book
T1 Conrad's shadow: catastrophe, mimesis, theory
T2 Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
A1 Lawtoo, Nidesh 1976-
LA English
PP East Lansing
PB Michigan State University Press
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1734600721
AB 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
AB pt. 1. Ethics of catastrophe -- Dueling to the end / ending 'The duel': Clausewitz avec Girard -- Ethical storms: Typhoon to 'The secret sharer' -- The cooperative community: epidemics in The shadow-line -- pt. 2. Anthropology of Frenzy -- A picture of Europe: possession trance in Heart of darkness -- A picture of Africa: postcolonial mimesis in Achebe's Things fall apart -- pt. 3. Metaphysics of tragedy -- Surrealist mimetism: fear of the dark in The nigger of the 'Narcissus' -- Rebirth of tragedy: Almayer's Folly to Apocalypse now -- Hypermimesis: horrorism redux in The secret agent -- Conclusion.
OP 420
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PR6005.O4
SN 1-60917-503-4
SN 978-1-60917-503-0
K1 Conrad, Joseph : 1857-1924 : Criticism and interpretation
K1 Conrad, Joseph
K1 LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc