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'A wilderness of words': Referentiality in the works of Joseph Conrad.

机译:“言语的荒野”:约瑟夫·康拉德作品中的借鉴意义。

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This thesis demonstrates that the characteristic insubstantiality at the core of Conrad's writing is an effect of his belief that the relationship between words and their referents is inherently arbitrary. This belief is paralleled by his concern with a perceived lack of any fixed ethical center around which one could arrange one's beliefs and actions, a lack that he located in the uncertainty of language. He felt, however, a desire for order, for reference points, for a world of linguistic certainty, and he felt that words, if used properly, might create such a world. This belief and this desire are both issues of "referentiality." Conrad's work reflects a systematic investigation of, and simultaneous undermining of, various traditional referential systems. An introductory chapter looks at Conrad's preoccupation with words as words. Chapter 2 analyzes Conrad's simultaneous approval and critique of romance as a reference point in "Youth," Almayer's Folly, Lord Jim, and The Rescue. Chapter 3 looks at the way Nostromo demonstrates the constructedness of history, exploding our complacency in the truth of history at the same time that it reveals our need to believe in history as "what really happened." Chapter 4 shows how Conrad's A Personal Record reveals that the self, like history, is a construction. Chapter 5 is an investigation of authority, authorship, and writing in Under Western Eyes, which is the culmination of Conrad's simultaneous quest for and denunciation of fundamental systems of meaning. Here he confronts, for the last time in his career, the fundamental ambiguity inherent in language, and the absolute uncertainty of the writer's task.
机译:该论文表明,康拉德写作核心的特征性非实体性是他认为单词与其所指对象之间的关系天生具有任意性的影响。这种信念与他的关注同时存在,认为缺乏任何固定的道德中心可以围绕一个人安排自己的信念和行动,这种缺乏是他所处的语言不确定性所致。但是,他感到渴望有秩序,有参考意义,希望有一个语言确定性的世界,并且他认为,如果使用得当,这些词语可能会创造出这样一个世界。这种信念和这种欲望都是“指称性”的问题。康拉德(Conrad)的工作反映了对各种传统参考系统的系统研究,同时又对其造成破坏。一个介绍性的章节介绍了康拉德对单词的专注。第2章分析了康拉德对浪漫史的同时认可和批判,作为《青年》,阿尔玛耶的《愚蠢》,吉姆勋爵和《拯救》中的参考点。第3章探讨了诺斯特罗莫(Nostromo)展示历史建构性的方式,同时展示了我们对历史真理的自满,同时也揭示了我们需要相信“真正发生的事情”的历史。第4章说明了康拉德的《个人记录》如何揭示自我,就像历史一样,是一种建构。第五章是对《西方的眼光》中权威,作者和写作的调查,这是康拉德同时寻求和谴责基本意义系统的最终结果。在他的职业生涯中,这是他职业中的最后一次面对,这是语言固有的基本歧义以及作家任务的绝对不确定性。

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  • 作者

    Demory, Pamela Hope.;

  • 作者单位

    University of California, Davis.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, Davis.;
  • 学科 Literature Modern.;Literature English.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1990
  • 页码 249 p.
  • 总页数 249
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 世界文学;
  • 关键词

  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:50:35

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