Reading Conrad
Series Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON THE TEXT AND ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION: Conrad and Me
THE POETRY OF REALITY
JOSEPH CONRAD: THE DARKNESS
THE SECRET AGENT
CHAPTER 2: Lord Jim: Repetition as Subversion of Organic Form
CHAPTER 3: Heart of Darkness Revisited
CHAPTER 4: Joseph Conrad: Should We Read Heart of Darkness?
CHAPTER 5: Conrad’s Secret
CHAPTER 6: Revisiting “Heart of Darkness Revisited”(in the company of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe)
CHAPTER 7: Conrad’s Colonial (Non)Community: Nostromo
THE ORIGINS OF NOSTROMO
MATERIAL VISION IN NOSTROMO: AS CONRAD DOES IT
WELL, SO WHAT?
READING NOSTROMO
THE OPENING OF NOSTROMO
MATERIAL VISION IN THE OPENING
CONRAD AND KANT
WARMINSKI ON DE MAN ON KANT
THE MATERIALITY OF THE LETTER IN CONRAD
“MATERIAL INTERESTS”: NOSTROMO AS CRITIQUE OF CAPITALIST IMPERIALISM
NARRATIVE COMPLEXITIES IN NOSTROMO
NOSTROMO AS COMMUNITY HISTORY
SULACO AS A NON-COMMUNITY
NOSTROMO’S REPRESENTATION OF CAPITALIST IMPERIALISM
IDEOLOGIES OF LOVE AND WAR: PSYCHODRAMAS OF INTERTWINED ISOLATOES IN NOSTROMO
CONRAD’S CINEMATIC VISION
SUBJECTIVE ISOLATION IN NOSTROMO
CHARLES GOULD’S SECRET OBSESSION
SECRETS INTERTWINED: THE IRONY OF ITERATED EPITHETS
NOSTROMO: NOT ANOTHER MULTI-PLOTTED NOVEL LIKE THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET
HOLROYD
PEDRITO MONTERO
EMILIA GOULD
THE SECRET AS A LINGUISTIC MISTAKE
DR. MONYGHAM
LINGUISTIC CONFUSIONS THAT HAVE RESULTS
DECOUD
NO TRANSCENDENT GROUND IN NOSTROMO
INDEX
THEORY AND INTERPRETATION OF NARRATIVE: James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz, and Robyn Warhol, Series Editors