Conrad in Perspective, Zdzislaw Najder

Автор: John G. Peters
Название: The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 0521548675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521548670
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: An essential book for students of the twentieth-century novel and of modernism, this introduction is aimed at students studying Conrad for the first time. John G. Peters explains how the key themes of travel and conflict are explored in the major works, Nostromo, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.

Автор: Ian Watt
Название: Essays on Conrad
ISBN: 0521783879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521783873
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Ian Watt (1917-1999) has long been acknowledged as one of the finest of post-War literary critics. Essays on Conrad is a collection of Watt`s most characteristic essays on the work of Joseph Conrad, together with his moving account of his experiences as a prisoner of war on the River Kwai.

Автор: Mulry
Название: Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists
ISBN: 1137502886 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137502889
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book looks at the inception, composition, and 1907 publication of The Secret Agent, one of Joseph Conrad’s most highly regarded political novels and a core text of literary modernism. David Mulry examines the development and revisions of the novel through the stages of the holograph manuscript, first as a short story, then as a serialized sensation fiction in Ridgway’s Militant Weekly for the American market, before it was extensively revised and published in novel form. Presciently anticipating the climate of modern terror, Conrad’s text responds to the failed Greenwich Bombing, the first anarchist atrocity to occur on English soil. This book charts its historical and cultural milieu via press and anarchist accounts of the bombing, to place Conrad foremost among the dynamite fiction of revolutionary anarchism and terrorism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Автор: Fergusson Francis
Название: The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, the Art of Drama in Changing Perspective
ISBN: 0691622310 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691622316
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Описание: An original and beautifully written book on changing perspectives in the art of theater. Through a study of nine plays--Oedipus Rex, Berenice, Tristan und Isolde, Hamlet, Ghosts, The Cherry Orchard, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Noah, Murder in the Cathedral--the author shows how all playwrights seek to "hold the mirror up to nature" and h

Автор: Conrad
Название: Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered
ISBN: 0521071283 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521071284
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Описание: Though others have published reminiscences of Joseph Conrad, these accounts have frequently contained inaccuracies, sometimes even simple fabrications. It is partly in an attempt to set the record straight that John Conrad, the novelist`s only surviving son, has committed these memoirs to print.

Автор: Freedman William
Название: Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge
ISBN: 161117306X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611173062
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marvelled at more routinely than Joseph Conrad for the perplexing evasiveness, contradictoriness, and indeterminacy of their fiction. William Freedman argues that the explanations typically offered for these identifying characteristics of much of Conrad's work are inadequate if not mistaken. Freedman's claim is that the illusiveness of a coherent interpretation of Conrad's novels and shorter fictions is owed not primarily to the inherent slipperiness or inadequacy of language or the consequence of a wilful self-deconstruction. Nor is it a product of the writer's philosophical nihilism or a realized aesthetic of suggestive vagueness. Rather, Freedman argues, the perplexing elusiveness of Conrad's fiction is the consequence of a pervasive ambivalence toward threatening knowledge, a protective reluctance and recoil that are not only inscribed in Conrad's tales and novels, but repeatedly declared, defended, and explained in his letters and essays. Conrad's narrators and protagonists often set out on an apparent quest for hidden knowledge or are drawn into one. But repelled or intimidated by the looming consequences of their own curiosity and fervour, they protectively obscure what they have barely glimpsed or else retreat to an armoury of practiced distractions. The result is a confusingly choreographed dance of approach and withdrawal, fascination and revulsion, revelation and concealment. The riddling contradictions of these fictions are thus in large measure the result of this ambivalence, their evasiveness the mark of intimidation's triumph over fascination. The idea of dangerous and forbidden knowledge is at least as old as Genesis, and Freedman provides a background for Conrad's recoil from full exposure in the rich admonitory history of such knowledge in theology, myth, philosophy, and literature. He traces Conrad's impassioned, at times pleading case for protective avoidance in the writer's letters, essays, and prefaces, and he elucidates its enactment and its connection to Conrad's signature evasiveness in a number of short stories and novels, with special attention to The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Under Western Eyes, and The Rescue. 

Автор: Watt
Название: Conrad: Nostromo
ISBN: 0521313651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521313650
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Conrad`s great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently topical. Ian Watt addresses Conrad`s concerns when writing the work, and provides an accessible introduction, taking account of background, history and politics, and reception and influence.

Название: Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 1403937095 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403937094
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Joseph Conrad is one of the great figures in the tradition of the English novel. Covering a range of Conrad`s fiction, this book 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.