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050	0	0	_aPR6005.O4 _bZ54394 2009
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100	1		_aAcheraïou, Amar. _zACH
245	1	0	_aJoseph Conrad and the reader : _bquestioning modern theories of narrative and readership / _cAmar Acheraïou.
260			_aBasingstoke : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _cc2009.
300			_ax, 233 p. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aFormerly CIP. _5Uk
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Conrad's Conception of Authorship: Probing the Implications and Limits of the Death-of-the-author Theory PART II: RECEPTION THEORY: READING AS A CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT Polish Responses: Art and the Ethics of Collectivity British Reception: Englishness and the Act of Reading PART III: AESTHETIC RAMIFICATIONS, NARRATIVE ENTANGLEMENTS & FICTIONAL READERS Conrad's Visual Aesthetics: Classical and Modern ConnectionsA Cartography of Conrad's Fictional Readers: Reading Hierarchy in Lord Jim, 'Heart of Darkness', Nostromo and Victory Narrative Solidarity and Competition for Truth and SignificationConrad and the Construction of the Reader: Tension between Democratic Vision and Aristocratic LeaningNarrative Self-Consciousness and the Act of Reading: Examining Under Western Eyes through the Lens of Fielding's, Sterne's and Diderot's PoeticsConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex.
520			_a"Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limits of deconstructionist theories, introducing groundbreaking new theoretical concepts of reading and reception"--Provided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aConrad, Joseph, _d1857-1924 _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	0	_aConrad, Joseph, _d1857-1924 _xTechnique.
650		0	_aNarration (Rhetoric) _xHistory _y20th century.
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