John G. Peters 
Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works [PDF ebook] 
Western and Non-Western Worlds

Soporte

This book considers the relationship between sound and silence in the works of Joseph Conrad, along with their ties to Western and non-Western space. Throughout Conrad’s works, a pattern emerges where Western space is associated with sound and non-Western space is associated with silence; similarly, Western space is portrayed as full of objects and activity, whereas non-Western space is portrayed as empty. As these tales progress, though, Conrad’s characters embark on transformational journeys that cause them to reassess the world they live in and sometimes even the nature of the universe. These journeys invariably occur through encountering non-Western space, and during the course of these journeys, the dichotomy between Western space, perceived as replete with sound and activity, and non-Western space, empty of such, blurs such that the fullness of the West is revealed to be simply a surface hiding the emptiness beneath. In the end, both Western and non-Western space are revealedto be absences, as the absence of sound becomes a correlative for the emptiness of space and the emptiness of space becomes a metonym for the cosmological emptiness of nothingness.

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1 Conrad’s Colonial Spaces.-2 Silence, Sound, Space.-3 Western Space in Non-Western Space .-4 Transformations: Silence, Space, Absence .-5 Russia’s Ontological Absence




Sobre el autor

John G. Peters is University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas, USA. His books include Joseph Conrad’s Critical Reception, The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad, Conrad and Impressionism, Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad, Conrad’s Drama, Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews (volume 2), and the Norton critical edition of Conrad’s The Secret Sharer and Other Stories.
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 113 ● ISBN 9783031449109 ● Tamaño de archivo 1.8 MB ● Editorial Springer Nature Switzerland ● Ciudad Cham ● País CH ● Publicado 2023 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 9157845 ● Protección de copia DRM social

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