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Joseph Conrad and the Reader

Questioning Modern Theories of Narrative and Readership

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  1. Amar Acheraïou
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-8

  4. Reception Theory: Reading as a Cultural and Ideological Construct

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Polish Responses: Art and the Ethics of Collectivity

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      Pages 25-48

    3. British Reception: Englishness and the Act of Reading

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      Pages 49-66

  5. Aesthetic Ramifications, Narrative Entanglements, and Fictional Readers

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      Pages 67-67
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    2. Conrad’s Visual Aesthetics: Classical and Modern Connections

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      Pages 69-93

    3. A Cartography of Conrad’s Fictional Readers: Reading Hierarchy in Lord Jim, ‘Heart of Darkness’, Nostromo, and Victory

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      Pages 94-109

    4. Narrative Solidarity and Competition for Truth and Signification

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      Pages 110-122

    5. Conrad and the Construction of the Reader: Tension between Democratic Vision and Aristocratic Leaning

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      Pages 123-142

    6. Narrative Self-Consciousness and the Act of Reading: Examining Under Western Eyes through the Lens of the Poetics of Fielding, Sterne, and Diderot

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      Pages 143-184

    7. Conclusion

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      Pages 185-192

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 193-233
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Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limits of deconstructionist theories, introducing groundbreaking new theoretical concepts of reading and reception.

About the author

AMAR ACHERAIOU (PhD, Sorbonne Nouvelle) has published numerous articles on Joseph Conrad, modernist literatures, postmodernist thought, and postcolonial theories. He is the author of Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literatures and the Legacy of Classical Writers and editor of Joseph Conrad and the Orient. He is currently completing a book entitled Demystifying Third Space Narratives: Hybridity in Postcolonial and Globalization Discourses.

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