Políticas del conflicto en El duelo, de Joseph Conrad
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 1130-5029, 2340-8995
Année de publication: 2020
Número: 40
Pages: 109-132
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Revista de humanidades
Résumé
Abstract: The present article tackles a new reading of Joseph Conrad’s novella The Duel (1908). The new approach construes the text as a revision of the politics of hegemony based on conflict —which defines present-day populism. After a thorough an analysis of the main rhetorical principle of the novella, the synecdoche war-duel, the author outlines the ideological premises the text scrutinizes, to wit, the construction of an antagonist, i.e. an enemy within the limits of a dialectical space, the assertion of a state of exception as the main ground for the conflict, and the dynamics of re-signification as a means to keep the conflict going. Conrad’s text, as seen through Deleuze’s perspective, ultimately criticizes these politics of identity and in so doing uncovers a new space of thought, outside dialectics, whereby its systemic structure can be deconstructed.
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El presente artículo ha sido producido y financiado en el marco del Grupo de Investigación “Contextos Literarios de la Modernidad” (Ref.: 941542) de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, dirigido por el Prof. D. Dámaso López García.Financeurs
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