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Conrad's shadow [electronic resource] :catastrophe, mimesis, theory / Nidesh Lawtoo.

By: Lawtoo, Nidesh [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781609175030; 1609175034.Subject(s): Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretationGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 823/.912 Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
Pt. 1. Ethics of catastrophe -- Dueling to the end / ending 'The duel': Clausewitz avec Girard -- Ethical storms: Typhoon to 'The secret sharer' -- The cooperative community: epidemics in The shadow-line -- Pt. 2. Anthropology of Frenzy -- A picture of Europe: possession trance in Heart of darkness -- A picture of Africa: postcolonial mimesis in Achebe's Things fall apart -- Pt. 3. Metaphysics of tragedy -- Surrealist mimetism: fear of the dark in The nigger of the 'Narcissus' -- Rebirth of tragedy: Almayer's Folly to Apocalypse now -- Hypermimesis: horrorism redux in The secret agent -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Ethics of catastrophe -- Dueling to the end / ending 'The duel': Clausewitz avec Girard -- Ethical storms: Typhoon to 'The secret sharer' -- The cooperative community: epidemics in The shadow-line -- Pt. 2. Anthropology of Frenzy -- A picture of Europe: possession trance in Heart of darkness -- A picture of Africa: postcolonial mimesis in Achebe's Things fall apart -- Pt. 3. Metaphysics of tragedy -- Surrealist mimetism: fear of the dark in The nigger of the 'Narcissus' -- Rebirth of tragedy: Almayer's Folly to Apocalypse now -- Hypermimesis: horrorism redux in The secret agent -- Conclusion.

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