The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures
Author: Mario Curreli
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13:
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Conrad's Secrets
Author: R. Hampson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-08-13
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1137264675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConrad's Secrets explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, the book provides contexts for Conrad's fictions and produces original readings of his work.
Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today
Author: Joyce Wexler
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-10-30
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 3030868451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how the anarchist fiction of Joseph Conrad can help us understand terrorism today. Conrad undermines the popular view that terrorists are fanatics. He portrays anarchists and police as counterparts driven by the human desires for autonomy and affiliation, the need to control their own lives and to be part of a group. Postcritique encourages readers to consider the accuracy of such information, and research in Terrorism Studies confirms Conrad’s insights: his characters are more realistic and his political stance is more hopeful than critics have recognized.
Joseph Conrad
Author: Robert Hampson
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2020-10-07
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1789143039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph Conrad is widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. Robert Hampson traces Conrad’s life from his childhood in a Russian penal colony, through his early manhood in Marseille and his years in the British Merchant Navy, to his career as a novelist. This critical biography describes how these experiences inspired Conrad’s work, from his early Malay novels to his best-known work, Heart of Darkness. Hampson also discusses Conrad’s important relations with other writers, in particular Ford Madox Ford, as well as his late-life political engagements and his relationships with women. Featuring new interpretations of all of Conrad’s major works, this is an original interpretation of Conrad’s life of writing.
Free Will and Determinism in Joseph Conrad’s Major Novels
Author: Ludwig Schnauder
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9042026170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- Free Will and Determinism: A Philosophical Introduction -- Free Will and Determinism in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain -- Conrad and the Problem of Free Will -- Heart of Darkness and the Empire Machine -- Nostromo and the Mechanics of History -- The Secret Agent and the Urban Jungle -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
The Poetics of Myth
Author: Eleazar M. Meletinsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 679
ISBN-13: 1135599130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Conrad and History
Author: Richard Niland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-02-25
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0199580340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the relationship between Conrad's work and three major subjects: the philosophy of history, nationalism (in Europe and Latin America), and Conrad's interest in French Romanticism and Napoleon Bonaparte. As well as discussing more well-known works, Niland re-evaluates the long-neglected late novels The Rover and Suspense.
The Life and the Art
Author: Keith Carabine
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-05-20
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9004484981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Life and the Art: A Study of Conrad's Under Western Eyes has a twofold origin. Over the past ten years, as an associate editor of the prospective Cambridge Edition of Under Western Eyes, the author, Keith Carabine, has worked on the genesis and composition of the novel in its several versions and on its literary, ideological, social, and historical contexts. At the same time during these years he has taught seminar courses on Conrad for undergraduates and on Conrad and Dostoevsky for postgraduates. This interpenetration of teaching and research constantly reminded the author that his many hours devoted to textual minutiae and manuscript variations or to a study of Conrad's Polish background should result not only in a scholarly edition of the novel in a book that will demonstrate the ways in which Conrad's life and his protracted, uncertain composition of the Under Western Eyes enrich his art; and the title of this book deliberately invokes Conrad's belief in the inseparability of the art and the life. This study's six chapters concentrate in different ways and with differing emphases on the complex inter-relations between the art and the life, on the intersections between Conrad's personal preoccupations, fictional aesthetic, and working practices with regard to what he described as without doubt ... the most deeply meditated novel that came from under my pen.
Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-10-07
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1107392748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Youth', Heart of Darkness and 'The End of the Tether' make up Conrad's most celebrated collection of short narratives. Heart of Darkness forms its sombre centrepiece: set in the Congo of the 1890s, this haunting and widely influential Modernist masterpiece explores the limits of human experience as well as the nightmarish realities and consequences of imperialism. The Cambridge edition presents this trio of stories and Conrad's preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so far published. The introduction situates the stories in Conrad's publishing career, traces their sources and surveys contemporary reception. The edition includes detailed explanatory and contextual notes, a glossary of nautical terms, maps and illustrations. A textual essay and comprehensive apparatus reveal the history of each story's composition, revision and publication. This volume will allow scholars to see these familiar stories in a fresh light, by returning to Conrad's original texts.
The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe
Author: Robert Hampson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-05-05
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1474241093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn and brought up in Poland bilingually in French and Polish but living for most of his professional life in England and writing in English, Joseph Conrad was, from the start, as much a European writer as he was a British one and his work – from his earliest fictions through Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent to his later novels– has repeatedly been the focal point of discussions about key issues of the modern age. With chapters written by leading international scholars, this book provides a wide-ranging survey of the reception, translation and publication history of Conrad's works across Europe. Covering reviews and critical discussion, and with some attention to adaptations in other media, these chapters situate Conrad's works in their social and political context. The book also includes bibliographies of key translations in each of the European countries covered and a timeline of Conrad's reception throughout the continent.
