Conrad`s Shadow – Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory : Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
ISBN-10
1611862183
ISBN-13
9781611862188
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Imprint
Michigan State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2016
Print length
464 Pages
Weight
626 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.80 cms
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Lawtoo offers new readings of Joseph Conrad’s novels and the postcolonial and cinematic works that respond to his oeuvre. Lawtoo argues that Conrad’s fascination with doubles urges readers to reflect on the two sides of mimesis, that once joined, reveal Conrad's Janus-faced fictions as powerfully relevant to our contemporary world of global violence and environmental crisis.
Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths? Drawing on an anti-Platonic tradition in critical theory, Lawtoo adopts ethical, anthropological, and philosophical lenses to offer new readings of Joseph Conrad’s novels and the postcolonial and cinematic works that respond to his oeuvre. He argues that Conrad’s fascination with doubles urges readers to reflect on the two sides of mimesis: one side is dark and pathological, and involves the escalation of violence, contagious epidemics, and catastrophic storms; the other side is luminous and therapeutic, and promotes communal survival, postcolonial reconciliation, and plastic adaptations to changing environments. Once joined, the two sides reveal Conrad as an author whose Janus-faced fictions are powerfully relevant to our contemporary world of global violence and environmental crisis.
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