As its title suggests, this thesis is concerned with the role of politics in Joseph Conrad's major fiction. It is not, however, an attempt to use the novels as a guide to Conrad's politics, but rather the reverse. To this end, the thesis is conceived around two principal aims. F…
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Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important in terrorism studies, they have…
"Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important in terrorism studies, they hav…
Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important in terrorism studies, they have…
This dissertation investigates the representation of racial Others in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers, Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Joseph Conrad's Nostromo. The project appropriates Gayatri G. Spivak's critique in A Critique of Postcolonial Reason of the invocation and …
This dissertation is a literary study of how four different writers employ the Indonesian Archipelago as a setting in which to conceive of human civilisation as a movement away from the material reality of Darwinian natural selection. The writers featured are the nineteenth-cent…
This dissertation addresses both the historical predicament of twentieth-century exile and its figuration in selected fictional and non-fictional texts. Although it treats writers from disparate backgrounds working in different genres, its object of inquiry is neither primarily …