Author： Ambrosini Richard
Publisher： Routledge Ltd
ISSN： 0039-3274
Source： Studia Neophilologica, Vol.85, Iss.1, 2013-06, pp. : 5-16
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Abstract
Approaching Conrad as a transnational writer, this essay argues, poses a challenge to the Anglo-Modernist contextualizing hypothesis that has shaped his reception in the twentieth century. In responding to a condition of linguistic and cultural marginality, Conrad anticipated the artistic projects of writers such as Luigi Pirandello, Italo Svevo, James Joyce, and Franz Kafka, who have contributed to creating a polyphonic literary space within twentieth-century European literature. This transnational space is the proper context for Conrad's texts. This alternative hypothesis will require a research programme involving not only Conradians but scholars of other European literatures, comparativists, narratologists, students of British intellectual history, and all those interested in theories of the novel, particularly those developed by Mikhail Bakhtin.
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