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Silence, space and absence in Conrad's worksWestern and non-Western worlds /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Silence, space and absence in Conrad's worksby John G. Peters.
Reminder of title:	Western and non-Western worlds /
Author:	Peters, John G.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024.
Description:	xiv, 113 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Silence in literature.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44910-9
ISBN:	9783031449109$q(electronic bk.)

Silence, space and absence in Conrad's worksWestern and non-Western worlds /
Peters, John G.

Silence, space and absence in Conrad's worksWestern and non-Western worlds /[electronic resource] :by John G. Peters. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - xiv, 113 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

This book considers the relationship between sound and silence in the works of Joseph Conrad, along with their ties to Western and non-Western space. Throughout Conrad's works, a pattern emerges where Western space is associated with sound and non-Western space is associated with silence; similarly, Western space is portrayed as full of objects and activity, whereas non-Western space is portrayed as empty. As these tales progress, though, Conrad's characters embark on transformational journeys that cause them to reassess the world they live in and sometimes even the nature of the universe. These journeys invariably occur through encountering non-Western space, and during the course of these journeys, the dichotomy between Western space, perceived as replete with sound and activity, and non-Western space, empty of such, blurs such that the fullness of the West is revealed to be simply a surface hiding the emptiness beneath. In the end, both Western and non-Western space are revealed tobe absences, as the absence of sound becomes a correlative for the emptiness of space and the emptiness of space becomes a metonym for the cosmological emptiness of nothingness. John G. Peters is University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas, USA. His books include Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception, The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad, Conrad and Impressionism, Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad, Conrad's Drama, Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews (volume 2), and the Norton critical edition of Conrad's The Secret Sharer and Other Stories.

ISBN: 9783031449109$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-44910-9doiSubjects--Personal Names:

176028
Conrad, Joseph,
1857-1924.Subjects--Topical Terms:

179253
Silence in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR6005.O4

Dewey Class. No.: 823.912

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