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Book Conrad and History

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  • Author : Richard Niland
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2010-02-25
  • ISBN : 0199580340
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Conrad and History written by Richard Niland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

Book Joseph Conrad

Download or read book Joseph Conrad written by Normand Sherry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish born, learnt English from scratch when he arrived in Britain. Writings include: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Nostromo. Volume covers the period 1895 - 1993. Includes Conrad's responses to his critics.

Book Conrad in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Conrad in the Nineteenth Century written by Ian Watt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."—New York Times This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. "Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."—New York Times This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek

Book The French Face of Joseph Conrad

Download or read book The French Face of Joseph Conrad written by Yves Hervouet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large-scale account of Conrad's extensive involvement with the French literary tradition, Yves Hervouet's book is a milestone in our understanding of his work. It will have a major impact on Conrad scholarship and as a study of cross-cultural influence, it will be of interest to all students of comparative literature in the period.

Book Conrad   s European Context

Download or read book Conrad s European Context written by Andrzej Busza and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On account of Conrad’s tragic and fascinating life before he became a writer, critics have usually offered a historical account of his early Polish years. Less attention has been paid to the cultural and literary background of that period and its subsequent influence. In fact, initially that influence was largely ignored. My aim has been not only to rectify that deficiency but to broaden the scope of the issue. In addition to dealing with his Polish background, the book also relates Conrad’s writing to other European literary traditions, notably French and Russian. Exploring the extraordinary geographical and historical range of Conrad’s fictional world, the book examines the rhetorical and narrative strategies employed in its vividly dramatic as well as psychologically insightful depictions.

Book Conrad in Perspective

Download or read book Conrad in Perspective written by Zdzisław Najder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zdzislaw Najder, one of the world's leading authorities on Joseph Conrad and author of the major biography Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle (1983), is widely acclaimed for his particular insights into Conrad's Polish background. The fruits of thirty years of Conrad study appear in this landmark volume of his essays, which explore a wide range of topics: Conrad's national and cultural heritage; his fictions, from the unfinished 'Sisters' and Lord Jim to The Secret Agent; his attitude towards Russia in general and Dostoevsky in particular; his concepts of man and society; and the role of the idea of honour in his work. In a series of more general essays Najder goes on to place Conrad's work within a broad European philosophical, political and literary context. Conrad in Perspective offers new insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists by one of his most perceptive critics.

Book Conrad  Language  and Narrative

Download or read book Conrad Language and Narrative written by Michael Greaney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. A trilingual Polish expatriate, Conrad brought a formidable linguistic self-consciousness to the English novel; tensions between speech and writing are the defining obsessions of his career. He sought very early on to develop a 'writing of the voice' based on oral or communal modes of storytelling. Greaney argues that the 'yarns' of his nautical raconteur Marlow are the most challenging expression of this voice-centred aesthetic. But Conrad's suspicion that words are fundamentally untrustworthy is present in everything he wrote. The political novels of his middle period represent a breakthrough from traditional storytelling into the writerly aesthetic of high modernism. Greaney offers an examination of a wide range of Conrad's work which combines recent critical approaches to language in post-structuralism with an impressive command of linguistic theory.

Book The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad

Download or read book The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad written by John Stape and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Please note: The eBook version of this title is slightly different from the paperback version. While the textual content remains the same, the illustrations/photographs were removed from the eBook version because of permissions issues. The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is the first new biography in more than a decade of one of modern literature’s most important writers--whose work remains widely read and acutely relevant eighty years after his death. In this authoritative, insightful book, we see Joseph Conrad as a man who consistently reinvented himself. Born in 1857 in Berdichev, Ukraine, he left home early and worked as a sailor out of Marseilles; traveled to the Far East and Africa with the British merchant navy; and, finally, in 1891, settled in England, beginning a precarious existence as an novelist and family man. Here is a Conrad for our moment: a man with a deep sense of otherness; a writer with multiple cultural identities who wrote in his third language and whose fiction became the cornerstone of literary Modernism. With his exceptional knowledge and understanding of Conrad, and drawing on unpublished letters and documents, John Stape succeeds in casting an illuminating new light on the life of a willfully enigmatic man who remains one of the greatest writers of his, and our, time.

Book Conrad and Language

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  • Author : Baxter Katherine Isobel Baxter
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2016-07-07
  • ISBN : 1474403778
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Conrad and Language written by Baxter Katherine Isobel Baxter and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad's complex relationship with languageJoseph Conrad was, famously, trilingual in Polish, French and English, and was also familiar with German, Russian, Dutch and Malay. He was also a consummate stylist, using words with the precision of a poet in his fiction.The essays in this collection examine his engagement with specific lexical sets and terminology - maritime language, the language of terror, and abstract language; issues of linguistic communication - speech, hearing, and writing; and his relationship to specific languages - his deployment of foreign languages, his decision to write in English, and his reception through translation. The collection closes with an Afterword by renowned Conrad scholar, Laurence Davies.Key FeaturesThe first academic and critical study wholly devoted to the topic of Conrad and language, and the first to address that topic from a diversity of critical approachesSpeaks to a range of current trends in literary criticism including transnationalism, lateness, translation studies, terrorism and disabilities studiesComprises newly commissioned essays by leading and emerging Conrad scholars from around the world, employing a variety of approaches including philosophy, psychoanalytical theory, biographical theory, as well as textually driven readings

Book A Conrad Chronology

Download or read book A Conrad Chronology written by O. Knowles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and enlarged, the second edition of A Conrad Chronology draws upon a rich range of published and unpublished materials. It offers a detailed factual record of Joseph Conrad's unfolding life as seaman and writer as well as tracing the compositional and publication history of his major works.

Book Typhoon and Other Tales

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  • Author : Joseph Conrad
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2008-08-14
  • ISBN : 019150436X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Typhoon and Other Tales written by Joseph Conrad and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TYPHOON * FALK * AMY FOSTER *THE SECRET SHARER The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. 'Typhoon' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by tempest, and of the stolid captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. In 'Falk' a taciturn young woman is bizarrely courted by a tug-boat master who is haunted by a terrible secret. 'Amy Foster' tells of an emigrant Pole struggling to overcome isolation and prejudice in England. The final tale, 'The Secret Sharer', is Conrad's most famous short story, a masterpiece of suspense and ambiguity. Giving sanctuary to a fugitive sailor, a young sea-captain risks his ship and his command in order to save him. This revised edition uses the English first edition texts and has a new chronology and bibliography. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Yearbook of Conrad Studies  Poland

Download or read book Yearbook of Conrad Studies Poland written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conrad

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norman Sherry
  • Publisher : London ; Boston : Routledge and Kegan Paul
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Conrad written by Norman Sherry and published by London ; Boston : Routledge and Kegan Paul. This book was released on 1973 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rezensionen 1895-1925.