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Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland).
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ISBN: 8323384142 9788323384144 Year: 2011 Publisher: Kraków Jagiellonian University Press

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The Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland) is an annual series devoted to the life and work of Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski who, while being one of the great names of English literature, had a cultural background that was very much Polish and indeed ""continental"". This sixth volume (2011) is published in Cracow by the Jagiellonian University in conjunction with the Joseph Conrad Society (Poland)


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Yearbook of Conrad studies (Poland).
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ISBN: 8323384134 9788323384137 9788323332633 Year: 2011 Publisher: Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press,

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The Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland) is an annual series devoted to the life and work of Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski who, while being one of the great names of English literature, had a cultural background that was very much Polish and indeed ""continental"". This fifth volume (2010) is published in Cracow by the Jagiellonian University in conjunction with the Joseph Conrad Society (Poland)


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Under Western eyes
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ISBN: 1280497165 9786613592392 9401207275 9789401207270 9789042034402 9042034408 9781280497162 6613592390 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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Characterized by Conrad himself as his “most deeply meditated novel,” Under Western Eyes enjoyed a warm reception on its publication in October 1911. In the century since it has rewarded readers with various pleasures. Exploring the intertwined subjects of personal morality, the nature of the State, national character and identity, and covertly digging into the tensions of his family’s past, the novel is the last of Conrad’s sustained excursions into overtly political territory. This collection of eleven essays considers Conrad’s achievement from several perspectives. Opening with a provocative essay on the text’s genesis, it surveys intertextual relations and influences, considers its ethical challenges, its psychological appeal to our time, and its contemporary reception and reception in Russia. Addressed to the scholar of literary Modernism, “Under Western Eyes”: Centennial Essays offers a vivid snapshot of current critical technologies. This well-balanced collection should help the student and classroom teacher alike in pursuing further the novel’s richly layered interests.


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Conradian contracts : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination
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ISBN: 1283071800 9786613071804 073914555X 9780739145531 0739145533 9780739145555 9781283071802 6613071803 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books,

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Combining psychoanalysis, structural and economic anthropology, this book treats Joseph Conrad's interests in exchange, contracts, and the condition of displacement. This is the first extended academic discussion of the social contract idea in the novelist's fiction. Furthermore, the simultaneous concentration on various fields of circulation (for example finances, dialogues, representations of women, or colonial mechanisms) invites the use of theories (Lacan, LZvi-Strauss, Simmel, Polanyi and Bataille) whose potentials for Conrad scholarship have not been exhausted (especially not in combinat


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Violence in early modernist fiction : The secret agent, Tarr, and Women in love
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ISBN: 8323380007 8323332320 Year: 2011 Publisher: Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press,

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This study focuses on texts exploring human proclivity to violent behaviour. Building on the anthropological insights of René Girard, and on the premise that literature is a reflection of a cultural moment, Curyłło-Klag shows how early modernism registers symptoms of crisis which even the outbreak of World War I failed to resolve. Arranged in chronological order, the works of Conrad, Lewis and Lawrence reveal an unfolding pattern and form a triptych, indicative of the growing intensity of the epoch in which they were produced.


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Time and the moment in Victorian literature and society
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ISBN: 9781139017565 9781107007420 9781107442559 9781139190824 1139190822 9781139185929 1139185926 9781139188227 1139188224 1283384035 9781283384032 113901756X 1107007429 1139179772 1107227720 9786613384034 1139189522 1139183605 1107442559 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Sudden changes, opportunities, or revelations have always carried a special significance in Western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments, events that compress great significance into small units of time. Sue Zemka questions the importance that modernity invests in momentary events, from religion to aesthetics and philosophy. She argues for a strain in Victorian and early modern novels critical of the values the age invested in moments of time, and suggests that such novels also offer a correction to contemporary culture and criticism, with its emphasis on the momentary event as an agency of change.

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English fiction --- Time in literature. --- Time perception in literature. --- Literature and society --- Literature and technology --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- History and criticism. --- History --- Dickens, Charles, --- Eliot, George, --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Cross, Marian Evans, --- Evans, Marian, --- Eliot, Džordž, --- Ėliot, Dzhordzh, --- Cross, Mary Ann, --- Lewes, M. E. --- Lewes, Marian Evans, --- Elliŏtʻū, Choji, --- Eliyaṭ, Jārj, --- Evans, Mary Anne, --- אליוט, ג׳ַַורג׳ --- אליוט, ג׳ורג׳, --- עליאט, דזשארדזש --- עליאט, דזשארדזש, --- עליוט ג׳יארג׳, --- עליוט, גי׳ארג׳, --- עליוט, ג׳רארג׳, --- Dickens, Charles --- Dikensi, Čʻarlz, --- Dickens, Karol, --- Dikens, Charlz, --- Ti-keng-ssu, --- Digengsi, --- Dikkens, Charlz, --- Dikensas, Čarlzas, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārls, --- Ṭikkan̲cu, Cārlacu, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārlas, --- Диккенс, Чарлз, --- דיקינס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקנס, ַ צ׳רלז --- דיקנס, טשרלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלז, --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקענס, טש --- דיקענס, טשארלז --- דיקענס, טשארלז, --- דיקענס, טש., --- דיקקענס, טשארלז --- טשרלס, דיקנס --- チャールズ.ディケンズ, --- 狄更斯查尔斯, --- Boz, --- Sparks, Timothy, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature


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Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
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ISBN: 0823234819 0823241246 1283580225 9786613892676 0823241513 0823234797 0823234800 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press,

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In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception. He is thus concerned with the way in which apocalyptic works solicit their future receptions.Apocalyptic Futures also sets out to articulate a new theory and textual practice of the relation between literary reception and embodiment. Deploying the double register of “marks” to show how a text both codes and targets mutilated bodies, the author focuses on how these bodies are incorporated into texts by Kafka, Conrad, Coetzee, and Spiegelman.Situating “In the Penal Colony” in relation to the Holocaust, Heart of Darkness to the Rwandan genocide, and Waiting for the Barbarians to the revelations of torture in apartheid South Africa and contemporary Iraq, the author argues for the ethical and political importance of reading these literary works’ “apocalyptic futures” in our own urgent and perilous situations. The book concludes with a reading of Spiegelman's Maus that offers a messianic counter-time to the law of apocalyptic incorporation.

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Fiction --- Ethics in literature. --- Apocalyptic literature. --- Prophecy in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Mimesis in literature. --- Literature, Apocalyptic --- Literature --- Representation (Literature) --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- History and criticism. --- Kafka, Franz, --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Spiegelman, Art --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Spiegelman, Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev --- Spiegelman, Arthur Isadore --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Ḳafḳa, Frants, --- Kʻapʻŭkʻa, --- Kafka, F. --- Kaphka, Phrants, --- Ḳafḳa, Amshel, --- Kafka, Franc, --- Kʻa-fu-kʻa, --- Kʻa-fu-kʻa, Fu-lang-tzʻu, --- Kāk̲apkā, --- Кафка, Франц, --- Кафка, Ф., --- フランツ・カフカ, --- קאפקא, פראנץ, --- קאפקא, פרנץ, --- קאפקה, פראנץ, --- קפקא, --- קפקא, פרנץ, --- كافكا، فرانتس، --- كفكا، فرنز، --- کافکا، فرانز، --- Kafka, Franz

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