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Title: | Search for Meaning through the written Word: a discussion of Narrative Methods and their relationship to the Search for Self in Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and Under Western Eyes |
Authors: | Giraud, Cedric H. |
Advisor: | Granofsky, Ronald |
Department: | English |
Keywords: | English;English Language and Literature;English Language and Literature |
Publication Date: | Aug-1996 |
Abstract: | <p>The primary focus of this thesis will be a formal analysis of narrative methods in Joseph Conrad's <em>Nostromo</em> and <em>Under Western Eyes</em>. Conrad develops the search for an understanding of individual character and selfhood through narrative approaches that self-consciously reflect the thematic and moral tensions in the novels. The metaphysics of alienation on the level of fictional characters are echoed by the epistemological and linguistic scepticism of self-subversive narrative frameworks: the reader's "moral universe" and access to reality are implicitly questioned by the problematic tripartite relationship between characters, the storytellers and shifting degrees of authorial omniscience.</p> <p>My approach to Conrad combines Bakhtinian critical theory with insights from the theories of Jacques Lacan, whose redefinition of the science of psychoanalysis as a linguistics provides a fascinating analytical framework within which to examine tensions between artistic creativity and the subjective search for meaning through communication.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12111 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/7023 8072 2989159 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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