THE ANTI-PASTORAL AND THE ANTI-GEORGIC TROPES IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S FICTION
THE ANTI-PASTORAL AND THE ANTI-GEORGIC TROPES IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S FICTION
Author(s): Dimitrie Andrei BorcanSubject(s): Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: anti-pastoral; anti-georgic; reader trap; anthropomorphism; theriomorphism; phytomorphism; entomomorphism;
Summary/Abstract: The present research presents the anti-pastoral and the anti-georgic tropes as dark modernistic variants of the classical genres. They both belong to dark ecology and to Conrad’s pessimistic outlook of the universe as no shelter for the humans, as a source of reader traps. In the anti-georgic, Conrad depicts both agriculture, mining and navigation as land and sea furrowing, a sin against Gaia that nature punishes.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 493-497
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English