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ocn876592862 |
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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20240726105433.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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140414s2014 mou ob s001 0 eng d |
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eng |
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9781611173079 |
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781306576765 |
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050 04 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
PR6005 |
Item number |
.J674 2014 |
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Freedman, William, |
Dates associated with a name |
1938- |
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Author |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Joseph Conrad and the anxiety of knowledge /William Freedman. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Columbia : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
University of South Carolina Press, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
(c)2014. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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1 online resource |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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computer |
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rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier type term |
online resource |
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data file |
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rda |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Prologue: Ambivalent fabulist, indeterminate fables -- |
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Forbidden knowledge and the saving illusion -- |
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The lie of fiction: Heart of darkness -- |
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The soft spot: Lord Jim -- |
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A more dangerous revolution: Under western eyes -- |
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Drowning in the romance of the shallows: The rescue -- |
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Appendix: Woman and truth, the history of an association. |
520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided or marveled at more routinely than Joseph Conrad for the perplexing evasiveness, contradictoriness, and indeterminacy of their fiction. William Freedman argues that the explanations typically offered for these identifying characteristics of much of Conrad's work are inadequate if not mistaken. Freedman's claim is that the illusiveness of a coherent interpretation of Conrad's novels and shorter fictions is owed not primarily to the inherent slipperiness or inadequacy of language or the consequence of a willful self-deconstruction. Nor is it a product of the writer's philosophical nihilism or a realized aesthetic of suggestive vagueness. Rather, Freedman argues that the perplexing elusiveness of Conrad's fiction is the consequence of a pervasive ambivalence toward threatening knowledge, a protective reluctance and recoil that are not only inscribed in Conrad's tales and novels, but repeatedly declared, defended, and explained in his letters and essays. Conrad's narrators and protagonists often set out on an apparent quest for hidden knowledge or are drawn into one. But repelled or intimidated by the looming consequences of their own curiosity and fervor, they protectively obscure what they have barely glimpsed or else retreat to an armory of practiced distractions. The result is a confusingly choreographed dance of approach and withdrawal, fascination and revulsion, revelation and concealment. The riddling contradictions of these fictions are thus in large measure the result of this ambivalence, their evasiveness the mark of intimidation's triumph over fascination. The idea of dangerous and forbidden knowledge is at least as old as Genesis, and Freedman provides a background for Conrad's recoil from full exposure in the rich admonitory history of such knowledge in theology, myth, philosophy, and literature. He traces Conrad's impassioned, at times pleading case for protective avoidance €in the writer's letters, essays and prefaces, and elucidates its enactment and its connection to Conrad's signature evasiveness in a number of short stories and novels, with special attention to The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Under Western Eyes and The Rescue. |
530 ## - COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: |
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION |
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600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Conrad, Joseph, |
Dates associated with a name |
1857-1924 |
General subdivision |
Criticism and interpretation. |
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Electronic Books. |
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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<a href="https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=654804&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518">https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=654804&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518</a> |
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942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Koha item type |
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) |
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EBSCO |
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PR. |
PUBLICATION YEAR |
2014 |
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ONLINE |
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Cynthia Snell |
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Cynthia Snell |