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Joseph Conrad.. 1, La fiction et l'autre
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ISBN: 2256909719 9782256909719 Year: 1998 Volume: 1342-1348 Publisher: Paris: Lettres modernes Minard,

Joseph Conrad.
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ISBN: 9782256911132 2256911136 Year: 2006 Publisher: Caen : Lettres modernes Minard,

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Travaux présentés au colloque tenu au Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle du 14 au 21 aoüt 2003

Joseph Conrad
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ISBN: 0521217423 0521292735 0511519192 9780521217422 9780511519192 9780521292733 Year: 1978 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Although the importance of Conrad's work has long been recognized, Jacques Berthoud attempts a full demonstration of the clarity, consistency, and depth of thought evident in the novels written during the first decade of this century. Instead of the standard versions of Conrad - from sceptical moralizer to 'metaphysician of darkness' - he offers a tragic novelist, engaged in a sustained exploration of the contradictions inherent in man's relations with his fellows; and from the perspective thus achieved, he is able to show why Conrad occupies a leading place among the creators of modern literature. This book will be of interest to specialists in English studies because it seeks to make a substantial contribution to the critical debate on the significance of Conrad's work. It will also appeal to any reader looking for guidance through the complexities of the major novels: the central issues have been presented as simply as the originality of Conrad's art and thought permits.


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Culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction
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ISBN: 1316310426 1316323803 1316327140 1316330486 1316289788 1316333825 1107475848 1316145573 1316320448 1107093988 1316317102 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Andrew Francis' Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction is the first book-length critical study of commerce in Conrad's work. It reveals not only the complex connections between culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction, but also how he employed commerce in characterization, moral contexts, and his depiction of relations at a point of advanced European imperialism. Conrad's treatment of commerce - Arab, Chinese and Malay, as well as European - is explored within a historically specific context as intricate and resistant to traditional readings of commerce as simple and homogeneous. Through the analysis of both literary and non-literary sources, this book examines capitalism, colonialism and globalization within the commercial, political and social contexts of colonial Southeast Asia.


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The new Cambridge companion to Joseph Conrad
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ISBN: 1107035309 1107610370 1316120236 1316121321 1139547453 9781107610378 9781107035300 9781139547451 9781316120231 9781316121320 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad studies since the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996). The volume's thirteen chapters offer diverse perspectives on emergent areas of interest, including canon formation, postcolonialism, gender, critical reception and adaptation. Likewise, chapters on Conrad's autobiographical writings, Heart of Darkness and 'The Secret Sharer', consider recent trends in both literary and cultural studies. A chronology and an updated guide to further reading serve to provide essential orientation to a large and complex field. This volume is the ideal starting point for students new to Conrad's work as well as for scholars wishing to keep abreast of current issues.

Conrad: : the critical heritage
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ISBN: 0710073887 9780710073884 Year: 1973 Publisher: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,

The strange short fiction of Joseph Conrad : writing, culture, and subjectivity
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ISBN: 0198184999 0191674427 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York Oxford Oxford University Press

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This study engages with the troubled question of authorial subjectivity and ethics in Modernism in general and in Conrad's short fiction in particular, and offers an original theoretical perspective, inspired by the work of Derrida and the early philosophical writings of M. M. Bakhtin. Part One of the book focuses on the relational dynamics in 'Under Western Eyes' and 'The Secret Sharer', and develops a 'heterobiographical' reading matrix, which serves as a psycho-textual and philosophical approach to modes of authorial presence in the text. Part Two offers close readings of ten short stories spanning the whole of Conrad's career and clustered into five chapters--'Writing and Fratricide', 'The Pathos of Authenticity', 'The Poetics of Cultural Despair', 'The Romantic paradox', and 'Addressing the Woman'. This part of the book engages with the interpretative problems posed by these stories through a cultural-historical perspective, linking Conrad's essentially Romantic sensibility and his unique position on the threshold of Modernism with some of the issues that have emerged from the 'Postmodern turn': the relationship between metaphysics and subjectivity, the conception of inter-subjectivity as prior to and constitutive of subjectivity; the permeability of textual and psychological boundary-lines; and the desire for subjective aesthetization. These issues, which can all be traced back to the cultural crisis of the turn of the century, are still with us at the close of the millennium.

The Cambridge companion to Joseph Conrad
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ISBN: 0521484847 0521443911 1139815326 0511999437 9780521443913 9780521484848 9780511999437 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad offers a wide-ranging introduction to the fiction of Joseph Conrad, one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Through a series of essays by leading Conrad scholars aimed at both students and the general reader, the volume stimulates an informed appreciation of Conrad's work based on an understanding of his cultural and historical situations and fictional techniques. A chronology and overview of Conrad's life precede chapters that explore significant issues in his major writings, and deal in depth with individual works. These are followed by discussions of the special nature of Conrad's narrative techniques, his complex relationships with late-Victorian imperialism and with literary Modernism, and his influence on other writers and artists. Each essay provides guidance to further reading, and a concluding chapter surveys the body of Conrad criticism.

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