Space, Conrad, and Modernity

by Con Coroneos

Recent literary and cultural criticism has taken a spatial turn. Nowadays, to speak is to speak from, to, or in; to know something is to have "mapped" its discursive operation. Focusing on the work of Joseph Conrad, in whom the opposition between a space of words and a space of things is strikingly figured, this book locates this development within the opposition between a space of things and a space of words. Among the figures drawn into dialogue...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019818736X
• ISBN13: 9780198187363
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"