The Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity - Alexia Hannis

Descriere The Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity - Alexia Hannis

\n \nThe Discerning Narrator sheds new light on Joseph Conrad's controversial critique of modernity and modernization by reading his work through an Aristotelian lens. The book proposes that we need Aristotle - a key figure in Conrad's education - to recognize the profound significance of Conrad's artistic vision.\n \nOffering Aristotelian analyses of Conrad's letters, essays, and four works of fiction, Alexia Hannis illuminates the philosophical roots and literary implications of Conrad's critique of modernity. Hannis turns to Aristotle's ethical formulations to trace what she calls the discerning narrator in Conrad's oeuvre: a compassionate yet sceptical guide to appraising character and conduct. The book engages with past and current Conrad scholarship while drawing from Aristotle's Poetics, Politics, and Nicomachean Ethics, as well as classical scholars to offer original philosophical analyses of major and understudied Conrad's works.\n \nDrawing on Aristotle, Hannis provides a fresh context for making sense of Conrad's self-differentiation from modernity. As a result, The Discerning Narrator provides an affirmation of literature's invitation to wonder about the possibilities inherent in human nature, including the potential for painful depravity, heroic excellence, and ordinary human happiness.\n

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University Of Toronto Press

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ENSTK

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9781442649071

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1

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