{"product_id":"the-challenge-of-bewilderment-paul-b-armstrong-9781501722714","title":"The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Challenge of Bewilderment\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Paul B. Armstrong here addresses the pivotal thematic experience of \"bewilderment,\" an experience that challenges the reader's very sense of reality and that shows it to have no more certainty or stability than an interpretative construct. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough readings of \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Fount\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e by James, \u003ci\u003eLord Jim\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNostromo\u003c\/i\u003e by Conrad, and \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParade's End\u003c\/i\u003e by Ford, Armstrong examines how each writer dramatizes his understanding of the act of knowing. Armstrong demonstrates how the novelists' attitudes toward the process of knowing inform experiments with representation, through which they thematize the relation between the understanding of a fictional world and everyday habits of perception. Finally, he considers how these experiments with the strategies of narration produce a heightened awareness of the process of interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul B. Armstrong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501722719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501722714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"Paul B. Armstrong","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935202607359,"sku":"9781501722714","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_90a212a0-cc1e-4720-9d65-261c11551a98.jpg?v=1681418452","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-challenge-of-bewilderment-paul-b-armstrong-9781501722714","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}