Titlebook: Conrad‘s Eastern Vision; A Vain and Floating Agnes S. K. Yeow Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 200

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A Closer Look at Tidal Effects,n hand with the emerging mob of the ‘others’ . than the indigenous peoples of the archipelago. Bound by the treaties signed with the Malay rulers, the British were obliged to ‘protect’ the prestige of the court and the interests of the Malays. For Hugh Clifford (1866–1941), ‘this huge moral-forcing

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09676-6maginary world. This chapter will consider how loopholes in art’s dialogue with history are manifested in the notion of vision itself. Conrad’s fictional ‘surplus’ as a ‘surplus of seeing’ is called into question because vision is itself dialogic and unfinalizable. In his tales, Conrad (1857–1924) h

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Book 2009This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad‘s Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad‘s irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision.

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and history that we locate Conrad‘s irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision.978-1-349-36084-0978-0-230-58328-3

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The Collision of Indistinct Ideas,, ‘[e]verything was still chaos’; however, something . ultimately ‘born from the collision of indistinct ideas’ (. 1: 151). In the ‘Author’s Note’ to ., Conrad employs the same imagery in expressing his inner turmoil:

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Patusan and the Malays,om obscurity into the light for the multitudes. In this chapter, I show that Conrad’s perception of Malay political culture and statecraft is historically informed and proves pivotal to his romantic construction of the Malay and the white rajahs of his Eastern tales. This fidelity to the facts of hi