03237nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050002000172072001500192072001500207072002300222072001800245100008400263245012800347250001800475264007900493300003400572336002600606337002600632338003600658347002400694520159100718650002502309650003802334650004602372650002502418650003402443650003102477710003402508773002602542776003602568776003602604776003602640856004602676912001402722912001402736999001702750978-3-031-44910-9DE-He21320251030110822.0cr nn 008mamaa231012s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314491099978-3-031-44910-97 a10.1007/978-3-031-44910-92doi 4aPN849.E87-.E872 7aDS2bicssc 7a1D2bicssc 7aLIT0041302bisacsh 7aDSx1D2thema1 aPeters, John G.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut96649810aSilence, Space and Absence in Conrad's Worksh[electronic resource] :bWestern and Non-Western Worlds /cby John G. Peters.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIV, 113 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda  aThis 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. 0aEuropean literature. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aLiteraturexHistory and criticism.96649914aEuropean Literature.24aTwentieth-Century Literature.24aLiterary Criticism.9665002 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303144909308iPrinted edition:z978303144911608iPrinted edition:z978303144912340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44910-9  aZDB-2-LCM  aZDB-2-SXL  c56389d56389