Conrad S Western World

Author : Norman Sherry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : 0521298083

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Conrad's Western World by Norman Sherry Pdf

Conrad's Western World traces the sources of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and some of the short stories related to these novels. As in his highly acclaimed Conrad's Eastern World, Professor Sherry provides an interesting blend of biographical reconstruction and investigation into the originals of the main incidents and characters - Kurtz, Nostromo, Verloc and many of the minor figures as well. It has been possible to show in the study of Conrad's source material a movement away from analyses of personal experience or the narrated experiences of others to a manipulation of material entirely outside the bounds of his own experience. This change reveals also a movement in interest from personal and private dilemmas to wider and more public concerns, and shows Conrad developing a progressive sense of the frightening underside of human society. Finally, Professor Sherry considers the play of Conrad's mind over his source material and traces the development of individual works from the given sources to the completed fiction. This reconstruction of Conrad's original materials and the tracing of their development into literary works of great distinction gives us a unique insight into Conrad's preoccupations and art.

Author : Allan Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317637967

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Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals) by Allan Hunter Pdf

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.

Author : Latef S. N. Berzenji
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781728374420

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Voyaging in Joseph Conrad’s Major Works by Latef S. N. Berzenji Pdf

Joseph Conrad is one of the most intriguing and important modernist novelists and short story writers, whose writing continues to preoccupy readers. Conrad combined his unique personal background as a Polish emigre, his personal experiences and voyagings as a seaman and his literary readings with the tradition of his adopted country to produce literary works and fictions, which blended with his distinctive taste, gave the English novel a further originality and development. This study, which primarily concentrates on four of Conrad's major works - Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, “The Secret Sharer,” and The Shadow Line shows that Conrad conceives voyaging as a symbolic means, an insight and vision into the human psyche. It becomes a journey into the inner-world of man’s psychological diving into his inner world of the self in quest of truth, of self-identity, self-knowledge, and self-control.

Author : Normand Sherry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134724253

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Joseph Conrad by Normand Sherry Pdf

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish born, learnt English from scratch when he arrived in Britain. Writings include: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Nostromo. Volume covers the period 1895 - 1993. Includes Conrad's responses to his critics.

Author : John G. Peters
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031449109

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Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad's Works by John G. Peters Pdf

This book considers the relationship between sound and silence in the works of Joseph Conrad, along with their ties to Western and non-Western space. Throughout Conrad’s works, a pattern emerges where Western space is associated with sound and non-Western space is associated with silence; similarly, Western space is portrayed as full of objects and activity, whereas non-Western space is portrayed as empty. As these tales progress, though, Conrad’s characters embark on transformational journeys that cause them to reassess the world they live in and sometimes even the nature of the universe. These journeys invariably occur through encountering non-Western space, and during the course of these journeys, the dichotomy between Western space, perceived as replete with sound and activity, and non-Western space, empty of such, blurs such that the fullness of the West is revealed to be simply a surface hiding the emptiness beneath. In the end, both Western and non-Western space are revealed to be absences, as the absence of sound becomes a correlative for the emptiness of space and the emptiness of space becomes a metonym for the cosmological emptiness of nothingness.

Author : Con Coroneos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : 019818736X

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Space, Conrad, and Modernity by Con Coroneos Pdf

Dotyczy twórczości Josepha Conrada (Teodora Józefa Konrada Korzeniowskiego).

Author : R.N. Sarkar,J.K. Biswas
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171563597

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A Critical Study of Joseph Conrad by R.N. Sarkar,J.K. Biswas Pdf

The Book Studies Conrad S Mostly Unconscious Psychological Promp¬Tings Behind His Adopted Method Of Treatment Of Themes, At One Stage One Kind At Another Stage Another Diffe¬Rent Kind, With The Corresponding Changes In His Stylistic Pattern. All These Variations Are Found To Conform To A Well-Related System In The Author S Discernments Arranged In Four Parts And Nineteen Chapters.

Author : Norman Page
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349180936

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A Conrad Companion by Norman Page Pdf

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521341353

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The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad Pdf

The Secret Agent (1907) is a compelling tale of espionage and terrorism set in Edwardian London. Ironically subtitled 'A Simple Tale', it paints a terrifying portrait of revolutionaries and anarchists whose personal lives are as barren and futile as their public acts of violence. It concludes with the unwitting accomplice of a would-be terrorist blowing himself to bits with his own bomb, the terrorist's subsequent murder by his own wife, and the wife's own suicide. This new edition is based on a painstaking comparison of the original manuscript of the work with its first, truncated appearance in the American magazine Ridgeway's: A Militant Weekly for God and Country, and with all subsequent book-form publications overseen by Conrad himself. The result is a new text, purged of the printers' errors and editorial interventions that have been reproduced in all previous printings. There is also a critical introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus, and helpful explanatory notes.

Author : John G. Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139457927

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The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad by John G. Peters Pdf

Joseph Conrad is one of the most intriguing and important modernist novelists. His writing continues to preoccupy twenty-first-century readers. This introduction by a leading scholar is aimed at students coming to Conrad's work for the first time. The rise of postcolonial studies has inspired interest in Conrad's themes of travel, exploration, and racial and ethnic conflict. John Peters explains how these themes are explored in his major works, Nostromo, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, as well as his short stories. He provides an essential overview of Conrad's fascinating life and career and his approach to writing and literature. A guide to further reading is included which points to some of the most useful secondary criticism on Conrad. This is a most comprehensive and concise introduction to studying Conrad, and will be essential reading for students of the twentieth-century novel and of modernism.

Author : David Mulry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137495853

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Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists by David Mulry Pdf

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.

Author : D C R A Goonetilleke,Caterina Sinibaldi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349211265

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Joseph Conrad by D C R A Goonetilleke,Caterina Sinibaldi Pdf

Author : John G. Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107034853

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Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception by John G. Peters Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad.

Author : Werner Senn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004339835

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Conrad’s Narrative Voice by Werner Senn Pdf

In Conrad’s Narrative Voice Werner Senn undertakes a close study of Joseph Conrad’s verbal style, drawing on linguistic stylistics and discourse analysis. He shows how an oral narrative voice informs all textual levels to convey Conrad’s sceptical, even pessimistic worldview.

Author : Ian Watt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520340893

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Conrad in the Nineteenth Century by Ian Watt Pdf

"Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."—New York Times