The Inwardness of Things: Joseph Conrad and the Voice of Poetry

by Debra Baldwin

The Inwardness of Things considers Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in an ancient and enduring quarrel between the poets and the philosophers. Beginning from the polemical poetics of his 1897 preface, Debra Romanick Baldwin focuses on Conrad's distinctively poetic "inward" approach to truth - an inwardness that is found in lived experience, in language, and in the world beyond the individual.

The book traces Conrad's poetic voice from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487558058
• ISBN13: 9781487558055
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher