TY - BOOK ID - 77882414 TI - Joseph Conrad and the swan song of romance PY - 2010 SN - 1351154826 1282385348 9786612385346 0754695956 9780754695950 9781282385344 9780754669029 0754669025 9781351154826 6612385340 1003063454 1138358258 PB - Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, DB - UniCat KW - Romances, English KW - History and criticism. KW - Conrad, Joseph, KW - Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, KW - Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, KW - Konrad, Dzhozef, KW - Kʻang-la-te, KW - Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, KW - Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, KW - Kʻonradŭ, Josep, KW - Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, KW - Kʻolladŭ, Josep, KW - Konrad, Dzd. KW - Conrad, Józef, KW - קונראד, ג׳וזף, KW - קונראד, ג׳וסף KW - קונרד, ג׳וזף KW - קונרד, ג׳וזף, KW - קונרד, יוסף KW - 康拉德, KW - Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, KW - Konrant, Tzozeph, KW - Technique. KW - Knowledge KW - Literary form. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77882414 AB - In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance, Katherine Isobel Baxter argues that Conrad's engagement with the genre invigorated his work throughout his career. Exploring the ways in which Conrad borrows from, alludes to, and subverts the tropes of romance, Baxter suggests that Conrad's ambivalent relationship with popular forms like the adventure novel is revealed in the way he uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations and make visible ethical problems with Europe's colonial project. Baxter e ER -