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Writing in Between
Beth Sharon Ash
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Hardback. BIC Classification: DSBH. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 553.
In Writing in Between , Beth Sharon Ash develops an important theoretical framework for interpreting Conrad's signal texts and his situation as an author. Using object-relations psychoanalysis, Ash reinserts into the literary conversation the idea of the psychologically-inflected subject. She integrates authorial subjectivity within historical context, thus lending agency and density to the 'relational subject' without neglecting the social forces which shape it. This book carefully positions Conrad as a writer caught 'in between,' as both a figure of alienation, critically disenchanted with British imperialism, and an orphan of genius desperately desiring a fit with his adopted culture. Through specific, ... Read more
In Writing in Between , Beth Sharon Ash develops an important theoretical framework for interpreting Conrad's signal texts and his situation as an author. Using object-relations psychoanalysis, Ash reinserts into the literary conversation the idea of the psychologically-inflected subject. She integrates authorial subjectivity within historical context, thus lending agency and density to the 'relational subject' without neglecting the social forces which shape it. This book carefully positions Conrad as a writer caught 'in between,' as both a figure of alienation, critically disenchanted with British imperialism, and an orphan of genius desperately desiring a fit with his adopted culture. Through specific, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Language
English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
339
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312214838
SKU
V9780312214838
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Ref
99-15
About Beth Sharon Ash
BETH SHARON ASH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and taught previously for several years at the University of Chicago. She has published extensively on Henry James, other Modernists such as Walter Benjamin, and select topics in critical and literary theory, including Jewish hermeneutics, deconstruction, and psychohistory.
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