Conrad's Eastern Vision: A Vain and Floating Appearance

by A. Yeow

Overview

This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230545298
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/20/2008
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

AGNES SWEE KIM YEOW is Head of the Department of English at the University of Malaysia.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology Glossary Map Introduction The Collision of Indistinct Ideas Patusan and the Malays The Rest of that Pantai Band A Vain and Floating Appearance Coda Notes Bibliography Index