- Hardcover: 248 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (21 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0230228119
- ISBN-13: 978-0230228115
- Product Dimensions: 14.3 x 1.9 x 22.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,147,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Conrad and the Reader is the first monograph fully devoted to Joseph Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory, and authorship. This challenging study proposes new avenues to modern literary criticism. Through sharp textual analyses and original comparative approaches, it highlights the theoretical and empirical limits of deconstructionist theories: death-of-the-author, text as an absolute semiotic sign, and reader as a hegemonic interpretative agency. In the process, it introduces several cutting-edge theoretical concepts: the text as a tripartite transaction; the notion of subliminal readers; para-fictional readers; authorial dissemination; and reading as an act of solidarity.
This book examines Conrad's ethics of readership and visuality in the light of modern experimentalist writers like Fielding, Sterne, Diderot, and Flaubert, as well as in relation to ancient theories of narrative formulated by Aristotle, Plato, Horace, Quintilian, Cicero, and Plutarch.
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This challenging study is the first monograph fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory, and authorship
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