Hardy, Conrad and the Senses

Hardy, Conrad and the Senses

Author: Hugh Epstein

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1474449883

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This book reads the highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound.


Hardy, Conrad and the Senses

Hardy, Conrad and the Senses

Author: Hugh Epstein

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781474477086

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This volume explores 'scenic realism' in the major novels of Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad. It offers the first book-length study of connections between these two major authors bringing new approaches to bear on often-taught works, providing an understanding of impressionist styles of writing that is drawn from contemporary empirical science.


Conrad and Nature

Conrad and Nature

Author: Lissa Schneider-Rebozo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1351721364

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This collection of twelve original essays by established and emerging scholars, seeks to explore these landscapes in Conrad’s work and serves as a look into our own recent history at a pivotal time us as we come to realize how our actions, choices and even our mere presence directly impacts the natural world that delicately sustains us. The text engages with work by Joseph Conrad, storied British merchant marine and official British citizen as of 1886.


The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad

The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad

Author: Debra Romanick Baldwin

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-07-15

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1040047084

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The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad attests to the global significance and enduring importance of Conrad’s works, reception, and legacy. This volume brings together an international roster of scholars who consider his works in relation to biography, narrative, politics, women’s studies, comparative literature, and other forms of art. They offer approaches as diverse as re-examining Conrad’s sea voyages using newly available digital materials, analyzing his archipelagic narrative techniques, applying Chinese philosophy to Lord Jim, interrogating gendered epistemology in the neglected story “The Tale,” considering Conrad alongside W.E.B. Du Bois, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, or Orhan Pamuk, or alongside sound, gesture, opera, graphic novels, or contemporary events. An invaluable resource for students and scholars of Conrad and twentieth-century literature, this groundbreaking collection shows how Conrad’s works – their artistry, vision, and ideas – continue to challenge, perplex, and delight.


Solitude Versus Solidarity in the Novels of Joseph Conrad

Solitude Versus Solidarity in the Novels of Joseph Conrad

Author: Ursula Lord

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1998-04-17

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0773566899

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Ursula Lord explores the manifestations in narrative structure of epistemological relativism, textual reflexivity, and political inquiry, specifically Conrad's critique of colonialism and imperialism and his concern for the relationship between self and society. The tension between solitude and solidarity manifests itself as a soul divided against itself; an individual torn between engagement and detachment, idealism and cynicism; a dramatized narrator who himself embodies the contradictions between radical individualism and social cohesion; a society that professes the ideal of shared responsibility while isolating the individual guilty of betraying the illusion of cultural or professional solidarity. Conrad's complexity and ambiguity, his conflicting allegiances to the ideal of solidarity versus the terrible insight of unremitting solitude, his grappling with the dilemma of private versus shared meaning, are intrinsic to his political and philosophical thought. The metanarrative focus of Conrad's texts intensifies rather than diminishes their philosophical and political concerns. Formal experimentation and epistemological exploration inevitably entail ethical and social implications. Lord relates these issues with intellectual rigour to the dialectic of individual liberty and collective responsibility that lies at the core of the modern moral and political debate.


Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception

Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception

Author: John G. Peters

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-04-29

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 110703485X

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This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad.


Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Author: Allan Simmons

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2006-09-21

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0230209599

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Joseph Conrad is one of the great figures in the tradition of the novel. This clear and well-written study provides a critically-informed introduction to Conrad and his work, placing him in his political, social and literary context, and examining his relationship to Modernism, England and Empire. Organised thematically - broaching the leading themes of race, the sea and nationalism - Allan H. Simmons covers the range of Conrad's fiction, from the early Malay novels, through such key works as Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes, to his later novels. First-time readers of Conrad are provided with in-depth contexts for appreciating a writer whose work is often challenging, while readers already familiar with Conrad's fiction will find new perspectives with which to view it. Approachable and authoritative, this introductory guide is essential for anyone with an interest in a master of twentieth-century fiction whose work variously altered the English and European literary landscape.


Rereading Conrad

Rereading Conrad

Author: Daniel R. Schwarz

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0826262937

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Leading Conradian scholar Daniel R. Schwarz assembles his work from over the past two decades into one crucial volume, providing a significant reexamination of a seminal figure who continues to be a major focus in the twenty-first century. Schwarz touches on virtually all of Joseph Conrad's work, including his masterworks and the later, relatively neglected fiction.


Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Author: Andrew Michael Roberts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1317891414

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Joseph Conrad is a key figure in modernist fiction, whose innovative work engages with many of the crucial philosophical, moral and political concerns of the twentieth century. This collection of major critical readings of his work is arranged according to the issues which each critic addresses, issues which are of crucial importance, and in many cases remain controversial, within contemporary literary theory and criticism. Following an opening section on the critical tradition, indicating how the study of Conrad's work has been politicised since the 1970s, there are sections on 'Narrative, Textuality and Interpretation', 'Imperialism', 'Gender and Sexuality', 'Class and Ideology', and 'Modernity'. Within each section two or three critical excerpts offer contrasting and complementary accounts of the fiction, while the headnotes to each piece and the introduction place these excerpts within the wider critical debate, clarifying for the reader both the theoretical issues and the interpretation of Conrad's fiction. A glossary of terms and a bibliography categorised by critical approach complete a volume which will provide an invaluable resource for students of Conrad and twentieth-century literature as well as other readers of Conrad's work.