Conrad and the Being of the World

A Reading in Speculative Metaphysics

Nicholas Gayle (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

170 Seiten

2022 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-7761-9 (ISBN)

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Why is it that many readers sense in Joseph Conrad’s universe something opaque and withdrawn, a suggestive feeling of something lying behind his richly textured prose that is possibly momentous, always hidden, but never fully expressed? This unique study explores and answers this question by analysing Conrad’s work through the lens of Object-Oriented Ontology, a new development in contemporary philosophy that has already been employed to illuminating effect in aesthetics and the humanities, quite apart from philosophy itself. What results from such a literary and philosophical coupling is a persuasive reading with real explanatory force, one able to shed light on what has remained hidden in Conrad till now, at the same time as it articulates a metaphysical structure of not just Conrad’s world but the universe itself and the very things we are—and what we take ourselves to be.

Nicholas Gayle is an independent scholar and writer. He is the author of Byron and the Best of Poets (2016), described by Pat Rogers as likely to be “the standard treatment for a long time to come”; Byron and the Sea-Green Isle (2018), a book praised by Bernard Beatty as “a remarkable achievement”; and Pope, The Odyssey and the Ontology of Language (2020), dubbed “an inimitably stylish, beguiling and compelling new work” by Jane Stabler. He is also a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2022
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5275-7761-9 / 1527577619
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-7761-9 / 9781527577619
Zustand	Neuware