04296nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001400172072001700186072002300203072001600226100008100242245009200323250001800415264007900433300004200512336002600554337002600580338003600606347002400642505066300666520206601329650003803395650001303433650003503446650003403481650002403515650002803539710003403567773002603601776003603627776003603663776003603699856004603735912001403781912001403795999001703809978-3-031-66723-7DE-He21320251030113233.0cr nn 008mamaa241018s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316672379978-3-031-66723-77 a10.1007/978-3-031-66723-72doi 4aPN770-779 7aDSBH2bicssc 7aLIT0240502bisacsh 7aDSBH2thema1 aOkuda, Yoko.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98621910aEmotions and Contingencies in Conrad's Fictionh[electronic resource] /cby Yoko Okuda.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXV, 190 p. 1 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: The Power and the Subtlety of Emotion -- Chapter 2: Always ‘the Unexpected’: Lord Jim -- Chapter 3: Emotional Reactions, the Idea, and a Lie: ‘Heart of Darkness’ -- Part II: Common Subjective Tendencies -- Chapter 4: Nature, Identity, and Emotions: Nostromo -- Chapter 5: Surprise, Anger, and Obsessive Thought: The Secret Agent -- Part III: Maturing in Adversity -- Chapter 6: ‘Pilgrimage of emotions’: ‘The Duel’ -- Chapter 7: ‘The feel of the ship’: ‘The Secret Sharer’ -- Part IV: Emotion and the Body -- Chapter 8: The Body, the Theatre of Emotions: Under Western Eyes -- Chapter 9: Conclusion.  a“Long-time admirers of Conrad’s writing will be positively surprised by this book. Relatively little has been written about emotions in Conrad’s fiction, yet Okuda succeeds in establishing their centrality to work after work. She displays an intimate acquaintance with Conrad’s texts, and her analyses are sensitive, sympathetic and enlightening. This is a book that helps us to gain a fuller sense of Conrad’s view of humanity and its place in an unpredictable universe, and one that sends us back to the texts to read them from this expanded perspective.” -- Jeremy Hawthorn, University of Science and Technology, Norway “Yoko Okuda has produced an insightful monograph on the topic of Conrad and emotion, an area of scholarship that has hitherto received little attention. Professor Okuda considers this topic across a wide range of Conrad’s works, including such less-studied texts as ‘The Duel.’ In short, this book fills a gap in the existing scholarly conversation surrounding Conrad’s works and will be a book that others approaching this topic will invariably draw upon.” --John G. Peters, University of North Texas, USA This book sets out to elucidate Conrad’s unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engaged in Conrad studies. It argues that the originality of Conrad’s conception of human emotions lies in his comprehensive grasp of emotions in the broad framework of a contingent world; he regards emotions as fundamentally a manifestation of human defiance towards reality. The book takes up seven of Conrad’s works which are of significance from the perspective of emotions and contingencies, including ‘Heart of Darkness’ and Nostromo. Yoko Okuda is Professor Emerita at Faculty of Humanities, Atomi University, Tokyo, Japan. Her work has appeared in journals including The Conradian, Conradiana, L’Epoque Conradienne, Yearbook of Conrad Studies, and Conrad Studies (Japan). She currently serves as President of the Joseph Conrad Society of Japan. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aFiction. 0aLiteraturexPhilosophy.96632214aTwentieth-Century Literature.24aFiction Literature.24aLiterary Theory.9617872 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303166722008iPrinted edition:z978303166724408iPrinted edition:z978303166725140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66723-7  aZDB-2-LCM  aZDB-2-SXL  c64290d64290