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Conrad's shadow : catastrophe, mimesis, theory
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ISBN: 9781611862188 9781609175030 1609175034 1611862183 9781628952766 9781628962765 1628952768 Year: 2016 Publisher: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press,

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Lawtoo offers new readings of Joseph Conrad's novels and the postcolonial and cinematic works that respond to his oeuvre. Lawtoo argues that Conrad's fascination with doubles urges readers to reflect on the two sides of mimesis, that once joined, reveal Conrad's Janus-faced fictions as powerfully relevant to our contemporary world of global violence and environmental crisis.

Conrad in perspective : essays on art and fidelity
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ISBN: 0511582099 051100091X 0585000530 9780585000534 9780511000911 9780521573214 0521573211 0521021464 9780521021463 0521573211 9780511582097 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Our Conrad : constituting American modernity
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ISBN: 0804775710 9780804775717 9780804757911 0804757917 0804783136 Year: 2010 Publisher: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press,

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Our Conrad is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad as a ""master"" literary figure as well as a call to transnationalize the field of American literary and cultural studies.


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Joseph Conrad and the swan song of romance
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ISBN: 1351154826 1282385348 9786612385346 0754695956 9780754695950 9781282385344 9780754669029 0754669025 9781351154826 6612385340 1003063454 1138358258 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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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


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Joseph Conrad and the anxiety of knowledge
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ISBN: 1611173078 9781611173079 1306576768 9781306576765 9781611173062 161117306X Year: 2014 Publisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,

Joseph Conrad : memories and impressions : an annotated bibliography
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ISBN: 9786612265860 9401205132 1435612906 9781435612907 9042022981 9789042022980 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi,

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This bibliography, the first volume in the new Conrad Studies series published in cooperation with The Joseph Conrad Society (UK), collects and annotates impressions and memories of Joseph Conrad by his family, friends, and acquaintances. It covers full length memoirs as well as newspaper and magazine articles, and in its wide sweep offers abundant details about the novelist’s personality and life. Of particular value is Martin Ray’s emphasis on difficult-to-trace items and the in-depth coverage of Conrad’s trip to the United States in the spring of 1923. An essential tool for the scholar, this book can also be read with pleasure for the light it throws on Conrad the man.


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Free will and determinism in Joseph Conrad's major novels
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ISBN: 1282505254 9786612505256 9042026170 144162550X 9781441625502 9789042026179 9042026162 9789042026162 9781282505254 6612505257 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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Although it has often been pointed out that the protagonists of Joseph Conrad’s novels frequently fail in what they attempt to achieve, the forces that oppose them have rarely been examined systematically. Furthermore, no sustained attempts have been made to rigorously address the central philosophical issue the characters’ predicament raises: that of the freedom-of-the-will. This interdisciplinary study seeks to remedy this neglect by taking recourse not only to the philosophical debate about free will and determinism but also to the relevant historical, economic, scientific, and literary discourses in the Victorian and Early-Modernist periods. Against this background a paradigmatic analysis of three of Conrad’s most significant novels – Heart of Darkness , Nostromo , and The Secret Agent – investigates the writer’s position in the free will and determinism debate by identifying certain recurring themes in which the freedom-of-the-will problem manifests itself. Light is thereby also thrown on a central Conradian paradox: how Conrad can insist on morality and moral responsibility, which presupposes the existence of free will, in a materialist-deterministic world, which denies it.


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Conrad's narrative voice : stylistic aspects of his fiction
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ISBN: 9004339833 9789004339835 9004339825 9789004339828 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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Werner Senn’s Conrad’s Narrative Voice draws on the methodology of linguistic stylistics and the analysis of narrative discourse to discuss Joseph Conrad’s perception of the role and the limitations of language. Tracing recurrent linguistic patterns allows Senn to demonstrate that Conrad’s view of the radical indeterminacy of the world is conveyed on the most basic levels of the author’s (often criticised) verbal style but permeates his work at all levels of the narrative. Detailed stylistic analysis also reveals the importance, to Conrad, of the spoken word, of oral communication. Senn argues that the narrators’ compulsive efforts to make their readers see and understand reflect Conrad’s ethics of human solidarity in a world he depicts as hostile, enigmatic and often senseless.

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