The Challenge of Bewilderment : Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford /

The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation betwe...

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Tác giả chính: Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-
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Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987.
Loạt:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Preface / Paul B. Armstrong
  • Introduction : bewilderment, understanding, and representation
  • Part I. Jamesian bewilderment : the composing powers of consciousness
  • Interpretation and ambiguity in The sacred fount
  • Reality and/or interpretation in The ambassadors
  • Part II. Conradian bewilderment : the metaphysics of belief
  • Contingency, interpretation, and belief in Lord Jim
  • The ontology of society in Nostromo
  • Part III. Fordian bewilderment : the primacy of unreflective experience
  • Obscurity and reflection in The good soldier
  • Reification and resentment in Parade's End
  • Epilogue : bewilderment and modern fiction.