Conrad's Eastern Vision A Vain and Floating Appearance [Hardcover]

This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision.Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology Glossary Map Introduction The Collision of Indistinct Ideas Patusan and the Malays The Rest of that Pantai Band A Vain and Floating Appearance Coda Notes Bibliography IndexAGNES S. K. YEOW teaches English at the University of Malay in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.