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Title Joseph Conrad and the ideology of fiction: a study of four works
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7969
Date 2004
Author(s) Eyeington, Mark
Contributor(s) Fincham, Gail
Abstract Includes bibliographical references. - This dissertation argues the priority of politics in the interpretation of Conrad's fiction. It does so by establishing a critical dialogue with, and around, Fredric Jameson's Marxist classic, The Political Unconscious (1981). Jameson's proposition that Conrad's fiction is to be understood as a """"Political Unconscious"""" - that is, that Conrad's works produce political meanings in the same way that Freud suggested thwarted human instincts produce neuroses or psychopathologies - is put to the test here. This dissertaion seeks to extend the application of Jameson's hypothesis into some of the areas of Conrad's oeuvre that Jameson himself did not treat, or treated only briefly.
Subject(s) English Language and Literature
Language eng
Publisher University of Cape Town; Faculty of Humanities; Department of English Language & Literature
Type of publication Thesis; Text; Doctoral; PhD
Repository Cape Town - OpenUCT, University of Cape Town
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