Overview: Responds to the call for a new postcritical paradigm by Rita Felski, Elizabeth Anker, and others.Collects essays animated by the question: where is hope in Conrad?.Aims not simply to dispense with cri.This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad’s central texts, including .Heart of Darkness., .The Secret Agent., .Under Western Eyes., and .Lord Jim.. Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique ascribes positive value to the knowledge, affect, ethics, and politics that emerge from literature. The essays in t
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