03478nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-031-44910-9 DE-He213 20251030110822.0 cr nn 008mamaa 231012s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031449109 978-3-031-44910-9 10.1007/978-3-031-44910-9 doi PN849.E87-.E872 DS bicssc 1D bicssc LIT004130 bisacsh DS 1D thema Peters, John G. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 66498 Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad's Works [electronic resource] : Western and Non-Western Worlds / by John G. Peters. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIV, 113 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda This book considers the relationship between sound and silence in the works of Joseph Conrad, along with their ties to Western and non-Western space. Throughout Conrad’s works, a pattern emerges where Western space is associated with sound and non-Western space is associated with silence; similarly, Western space is portrayed as full of objects and activity, whereas non-Western space is portrayed as empty. As these tales progress, though, Conrad’s characters embark on transformational journeys that cause them to reassess the world they live in and sometimes even the nature of the universe. These journeys invariably occur through encountering non-Western space, and during the course of these journeys, the dichotomy between Western space, perceived as replete with sound and activity, and non-Western space, empty of such, blurs such that the fullness of the West is revealed to be simply a surface hiding the emptiness beneath. In the end, both Western and non-Western space are revealed tobe absences, as the absence of sound becomes a correlative for the emptiness of space and the emptiness of space becomes a metonym for the cosmological emptiness of nothingness. John G. Peters is University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas, USA. His books include Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception, The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad, Conrad and Impressionism, Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad, Conrad's Drama, Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews (volume 2), and the Norton critical edition of Conrad's The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. European literature. Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature History and criticism. 66499 European Literature. Twentieth-Century Literature. Literary Criticism. 66500 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031449093 Printed edition: 9783031449116 Printed edition: 9783031449123 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44910-9 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 56389 56389