Space, Conrad, and Modernity
Author: Con Coroneos
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780198187363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDotyczy twórczości Josepha Conrada (Teodora Józefa Konrada Korzeniowskiego).
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Author: Con Coroneos
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780198187363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDotyczy twórczości Josepha Conrada (Teodora Józefa Konrada Korzeniowskiego).
Author: Peter Mallios
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 0804775710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of itself and its place in the world. Peter Mallios reveals the historical and political factors that made Conrad's work valuable to a range of prominent figures—including Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Richard Wright, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore and Edith Roosevelt—and explores regional differences in Conrad's reception. He proves that foreign-authored writing can be as integral a part of United States culture as that of any native. Arguing that an individual writer's apparent (national, gendered, racial, political) identity is not always a good predictor of the diversity of voices and dialogues to which he gives rise, this exercise in transnational comparativism participates in post-Americanist efforts to render American Studies less insular and parochial.
Author: Cesare Casarino
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780816639274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt once a literary-philosophical meditation on the question of modernity and a manifesto for a new form of literary criticism, Modernity at Sea argues that the nineteenth-century sea narrative played a crucial role in the emergence of a theory of modernity as permanent crisis. In a series of close readings of such works as Herman Melville's White-Jacket and Moby Dick, Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and The Secret Sharer, and Karl Marx's Grundrisse, Cesare Casarino draws upon the thought of twentieth-century figures including Giorgio Agamben, Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Leo Bersani, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Antonio Negri to characterize the nineteenth-century ship narrative as the epitome of Michel Foucault's 'heterotopia'-a special type of space that simultaneously represents, inverts, and contests all other spaces in culture. Elaborating Foucault's claim that the ship has been the heterotopia par excellence of Western civilization since the Renaissance, Casarino goes on to argue that the nineteenth-century sea narrative froze the world of the ship just before its disappearance-thereby capturing at once its apogee and its end, and producing the ship as the matrix of modernity.
Author: Carola M. Kaplan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780415971652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe original essays in this collection examine Conrad in the light of his representations of post-colonialism, of empire, imperialism, & of modernism & modernity questions that are as relevant today as they were in the early years of the 20th century.
Author: Thacker Andrew Thacker
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-01-22
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1474441947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the crucial role played by the city in the construction of modernismThis innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. Focusing on how literary outsiders represented various spaces in these cities, it draws upon contemporary theories of affect and literary geography. Particular attention is given to the transnational qualities of modernist writing by examining writers whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles or strangers, including Mulk Raj Anand, Blaise Cendrars, Bryher, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Hope Mirrlees, Noami Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sam Selvon and Stephen Spender.Key FeaturesThe first book in modernist studies to bring detailed discussion of these four cities togetherBreaks new ground in being the first book to bring affect theory and literary geography together in order to analyse modernismAn extensive range of authors is analysed, from the canonical to the previously marginalSituates the literary and filmic texts within the context of urban spaces and cultural institutions
Author: Kim Salmons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-07-29
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1350168939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates the multicultural and transnational characters that comprise his fiction while locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English country gentleman. Conrad's characters are often marked by crossings – changes of nation, changes of culture, changes of identity – which refract Conrad's own cultural transitions. These crossings not only subjectivise the experience of the migrant through the modern complexities of technology and speed, but also through cross-cultural encounters of food and language. Collectively, these essays explore the experience of the migrant as exile; the inescapable intermeshing of migration, modernity and transnationalism as well as Conrad's own global and multicultural outlook. Conrad's work writes across historical, political and ethnic borders speaking to a transnational reality that continues to have relevance today.
Author: Peter Brooker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-05-07
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1134329105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most pivotal developments in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is proving particularly important for modernist studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century. Cross-disciplinary essays test and extend a variety of methodological approaches and reveal the reach of this topic into every corner of modernist scholarship. From Imagist poetry and the Orient to teashops and modernism in London, or from mapping and belonging in James Joyce or Joseph Conrad to the space of new media artists, this remarkable volume offers fresh, invigorating research that ranges across the field of modernism. It also serves to identify the many exciting new directions that future studies may take. With groundbreaking essays from an international team of highly-regarded scholars, Geographies of Modernism is an important step forward in literary and cultural studies.
Author: Wesley A. Kort
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wesley A. Kort
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780813027319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWesley A. Kort mines and organizes the contribution of six modern English writers (Hardy, Conrad, Forster, Graham Green, Golding, and Spark) to our understanding of human relations to places and the moral and spiritual importance of these relations.
Author: Vincent Sherry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-01-11
Total Pages: 1579
ISBN-13: 1316720535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century.