The Challenge of Bewilderment Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford Armstrong, Paul B. creator text Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. xx 2018 1987 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (291 pages) The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between knowing and narration. The Challenge of Bewilderment; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Bewilderment, Understanding, and Representation; Part I Jamesian Bewilderment: The Composing Powers of Consciousness; 1. Interpretation and Ambiguity in The Sacred Fount; 2. Reality and/or Interpretation in The Ambassadors; Part II Conradian Bewilderment: The Metaphysics of Belief; 3. Contingency, Interpretation, and Belief in Lord Jim; 4. The Ontology of Society in Nostromo; Part III Fordian Bewilderment: The Primacy of Unreflective Experience; 5. Obscurity and Reflection in The Good Soldier. 6. Reification and Resentment in Parade's EndEpilogue: Bewilderment and Modern Fiction; Index. In English. Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924 Criticism and interpretation Ford, Ford Madox 1873-1939 Criticism and interpretation James, Henry 1843-1916 Criticism and interpretation Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924 Ford, Ford Madox 1873-1939 James, Henry 1843-1916 English fiction 20th century History and criticism Mimesis in literature Knowledge, Theory of, in literature Roman anglais 20e siècle Histoire et critique Mimêsis dans la littérature Théorie de la connaissance dans la littérature LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh English fiction Knowledge, Theory of, in literature Mimesis in literature 1900-1999 fast PR881 .A767 1987eb 823/.912/09 Challenge of Bewilderment : Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford Armstrong, Paul B. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2018 1501722727 9781501722721 1501722719 9781501722714 https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9781501722721 EBLCP 180317 20250127193531.9 in00005614692 eng