READING JOSEPH CONRAD: RHETORICAL AESTHETICS/AESTHETIC RHETORICS
READING JOSEPH CONRAD: RHETORICAL AESTHETICS/AESTHETIC RHETORICS

Summary/Abstract: The evocative capacity of words whether spoken or written—that is, the power of words to make of audiences spectators of and participants in the materiality of the world — is something at which Joseph Conrad excels. This is particularly apparent in the openings of his stories and novels, where he is staging a scene of telling or a scene of action (e.g., Heart of Darkness in the former instance and Almayer’s Folly in the latter). As a student of rhetoric, my engagement with art has always had a rhetorical aspect to it, though not so much in the suasive sense of Aristotelean instrumental rhetoric.

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