Download or read book Conrad's Eastern Vision written by A. Yeow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision.