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Keywords
- biography
- critique
- culture
- idea
- ideology
- imperialism
- interpret
- nation
- novel
- psychoanalysis
- revolution
- Russia
- social change
- subject
- writing
About this book
In Writing in Between , Beth Sharon Ash develops an important theoretical framework for interpreting Conrad's signal texts and his situation as an author. Using object-relations psychoanalysis, Ash reinserts into the literary conversation the idea of the psychologically-inflected subject. She integrates authorial subjectivity within historical context, thus lending agency and density to the 'relational subject' without neglecting the social forces which shape it. This book carefully positions Conrad as a writer caught 'in between,' as both a figure of alienation, critically disenchanted with British imperialism, and an orphan of genius desperately desiring a fit with his adopted culture. Through specific, often surprising readings of Conrad's novels and broad analysis of psychoanalytic and modernist criticism, Ash makes a significant theoretical contribution to theories of the subject.
About the author
BETH SHARON ASH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and taught previously for several years at the University of Chicago. She has published extensively on Henry James, other Modernists such as Walter Benjamin, and select topics in critical and literary theory, including Jewish hermeneutics, deconstruction, and psychohistory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Writing in Between
Book Subtitle: Modernity and Psychosocial Dilemma in the Novels of Joseph Conrad
Authors: Beth Sharon Ash
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-21483-8Published: 22 October 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 339