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Transforming the profane: Conrad and...

Szczeszak, Agata Izabela.

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Transforming the profane: Conrad and Joyce.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Transforming the profane: Conrad and Joyce./
作者:	Szczeszak, Agata Izabela.
面頁冊數:	276 p.
附註:	Adviser: Thomas Rice.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-07A.
標題:	Biography. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3224479
ISBN:	9780542784194

Transforming the profane: Conrad and Joyce.
Szczeszak, Agata Izabela.

Transforming the profane: Conrad and Joyce. - 276 p.

Adviser: Thomas Rice.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Carolina, 2006.

"Transforming the Profane" is a comparative study responding to the numerous parallels between Joseph Conrad's and James Joyce's political and religious formations, arising from strong correspondences between their lives and careers. Situated within the colonial and late-colonial milieu, Conrad and Joyce---two modernist authors who rejected formal religion and yet remained supersaturated with it---perceive a dichotomy between the sacred and the profane, together with the innumerable variations on the same divisive grand narrative---such as order and disorder, white and black---in the official discourse constructed and owned by the Western hegemonic establishment. Through a multidisciplinary investigation influenced by the theories of Mircea Eliade, Michel de Certeau, and Gayatri Spivak, among others, I demonstrate the inherent relationship between imperialism and the atavistic drive towards the sacred: a connection present in Conrad's and Joyce's fiction which exposes and often subverts traditional, arbitrary binaries. This dichotomy is expedient in producing and maintaining prejudice against and fear of the other, which, in effect, aids the imperial enterprise in the drive to approach the sacred through reenactment of the cosmogonic myth. Such fragmentation, however, engenders the profane instead of conquering or transforming it into the sacred.

ISBN: 9780542784194Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

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