TY - GEN T1 - Conrad's shadow : catastrophe, mimesis, theory T2 - Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture. A1 - Lawtoo, Nidesh LA - English PP - East Lansing PB - Michigan State University Press YR - 2016 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn958350116 AB - Lawtoo offers new readings of Joseph Conrad's novels and the postcolonial and cinematic works that respond to his oeuvre. Lawtoo argues that Conrad's fascination with doubles urges readers to reflect on the two sides of mimesis, that once joined, reveal Conrad's Janus-faced fictions as powerfully relevant to our contemporary world of global violence and environmental crisis. OP - 420 CN - PR6005.O4 Z76465 2016 SN - 9781609175030 SN - 1609175034 SN - 9781611862188 SN - 1611862183 SN - 9781628952766 SN - 9781628962765 KW - Conrad, Joseph, : 1857-1924 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Conrad, Joseph, : 1857-1924 KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -