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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This dissertation takes a spatially informed approach to works set in the Imperial Malay World. The primary texts examined include Max Havelaar (1859) by Multatuli, Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad, The Ten Thousand Things (1958) by Maria Dermoût, and various works including the…
This dissertation develops a theory of culture which addresses the role cognition plays in the construction and perpetuation of ideologies and the role ideologies play in the formation of national identities and literatures. Using the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson as a …
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 …
Conrad juxtaposes Western culture with its native counterpart in order to formulate a vision that can guide the alienated individual who has lost his connection with his own nature, his family, and his society. Unlike many of his contemporaries who only describe this miserable h…
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…