The Challenge of Bewilderment : Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford / / Paul B. Armstrong.
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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Armstrong, Paul B., 1949- The Challenge of Bewilderment Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford / Paul B. Armstrong. Cornell University Press 2018 Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987. ©1987. 1 online resource (276 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes index. This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy 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 between knowing and narration. Paul B. Armstrong here addresses the pivotal thematic experience of "bewilderment," an experience that challenges the reader's very sense of reality and that shows it to have no more certainty or stability than an interpretative construct. Through readings of The Sacred Fount and The Ambassadors by James, Lord Jim and Nostromo by Conrad, and The Good Soldier and Parade's End by Ford, Armstrong examines how each writer dramatizes his understanding of the act of knowing. Armstrong demonstrates how the novelists' attitudes toward the process of knowing inform experiments with representation, through which they thematize the relation between the understanding of a fictional world and everyday habits of perception. Finally, he considers how these experiments with the strategies of narration produce a heightened awareness of the process of interpretation. In English. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Bewilderment, Understanding, and Representation -- PART I. Jamesian Bewilderment: The Composing Powers of Consciousness -- PART II. Conradian Bewildennent: The Metaphysics of Belief -- PART III. Fordian Bewilderment: The Primacy of Unreflective Experience -- Epilogue: Bewilderment and Modern Fiction -- Index Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. Mimesis in literature. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. James, Henry, 1843-1916 Criticism and interpretation. Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939 Criticism and interpretation. Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 Criticism and interpretation. Electronic books. Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 0-8014-1949-2 1-5017-2273-5 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Bewilderment, Understanding, and Representation -- PART I. Jamesian Bewilderment: The Composing Powers of Consciousness -- PART II. Conradian Bewildennent: The Metaphysics of Belief -- PART III. Fordian Bewilderment: The Primacy of Unreflective Experience -- Epilogue: Bewilderment and Modern Fiction -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Bewilderment, Understanding, and Representation -- PART I. Jamesian Bewilderment: The Composing Powers of Consciousness -- PART II. Conradian Bewildennent: The Metaphysics of Belief -- PART III. Fordian Bewilderment: The Primacy of Unreflective Experience -- Epilogue: Bewilderment and Modern Fiction -- Index |
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