By R. Radhakrishnan
This interpretive dictionary introduces the serious and theoretical international of distinctive literary and cultural critic Edward W. acknowledged during the the most important phrases and ideas valuable to his paintings.
- Compares and contrasts Said's standpoint with different key theorists, similar to Derrida, Spivak, Foucault, and Jameson
- Describes the an important phrases and ideas relevant to Said's paintings
- Places the improvement of Said's paintings inside its old context
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It is Conrad’s presentation of his own narrative that goes beyond the limitations of what the narrative can actually represent. Yet another way of saying this would be: it is Conrad’s writerly openness that redeems him from merely re-presenting reality in the form of a predictable and fatuous tautology. To put it somewhat differently, in Conrad’s fiction, thanks to Conrad’s mode of presentation, reality unfolds as a syndrome, as a configuration of symptoms that necessitate critical diagnostic readings.
Conrad’s mastery of narrative, paradoxically and deconstructively if you will, reveals itself in its vulnerability to contingency and circumstances. The relationship of intention to what will eventually be meant is never stable or predictable in a Conrad story. The world is both intended and mis-intended, recognized and mis-recognized in the linguistic literary intention. Another important feature in Conrad’s narrative presentation that Said picks up on is orality. There is always an internal narrator or a teller who is telling the story, a story addressed to an internal audience; and there is an occasion for the oral transmission of the story.
Said’s noble endeavor is to find a critical way to secure the world as one in our knowledge, in our epistemology. Would Said call himself a centrist in the name of one universal world sharable by all? Perhaps not: he would most likely turn to the notion of all our overlapping and intersecting histories which in their very differential deployment attest to the backdrop of a single common world. But he may want to hold on to the center for strategic reasons. As a perennially oppositional critic and intellectual, Said would want and require the dominance of centrism as the object of critical antagonism.