Culture And Commerce In Conrad S Asian Fiction

Author : Andrew Francis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107093980

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Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction by Andrew Francis Pdf

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.

Author : Kim Salmons,Tania Zulli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350168930

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Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad by Kim Salmons,Tania Zulli Pdf

Examining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates the multicultural and transnational characters that comprise his fiction while locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English country gentleman. Conrad's characters are often marked by crossings – changes of nation, changes of culture, changes of identity – which refract Conrad's own cultural transitions. These crossings not only subjectivise the experience of the migrant through the modern complexities of technology and speed, but also through cross-cultural encounters of food and language. Collectively, these essays explore the experience of the migrant as exile; the inescapable intermeshing of migration, modernity and transnationalism as well as Conrad's own global and multicultural outlook. Conrad's work writes across historical, political and ethnic borders speaking to a transnational reality that continues to have relevance today.

Author : Baxter Katherine Isobel Baxter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474403788

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Conrad and Language by Baxter Katherine Isobel Baxter Pdf

Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad's complex relationship with languageJoseph Conrad was, famously, trilingual in Polish, French and English, and was also familiar with German, Russian, Dutch and Malay. He was also a consummate stylist, using words with the precision of a poet in his fiction.The essays in this collection examine his engagement with specific lexical sets and terminology - maritime language, the language of terror, and abstract language; issues of linguistic communication - speech, hearing, and writing; and his relationship to specific languages - his deployment of foreign languages, his decision to write in English, and his reception through translation. The collection closes with an Afterword by renowned Conrad scholar, Laurence Davies.Key FeaturesThe first academic and critical study wholly devoted to the topic of Conrad and language, and the first to address that topic from a diversity of critical approachesSpeaks to a range of current trends in literary criticism including transnationalism, lateness, translation studies, terrorism and disabilities studiesComprises newly commissioned essays by leading and emerging Conrad scholars from around the world, employing a variety of approaches including philosophy, psychoanalytical theory, biographical theory, as well as textually driven readings

Author : R. Hampson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137264671

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Conrad's Secrets by R. Hampson Pdf

Conrad's Secrets explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, the book provides contexts for Conrad's fictions and produces original readings of his work.

Author : Ian Burnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645106801

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Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages by Ian Burnet Pdf

The life of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story that could be written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. The young Conrad dreamed of a life at sea, he eventually became a British merchant seaman and he spent fifteen years sailing on the classic three-masted, square-rigged sailing clippers before they were ultimately replaced by steamships. During this period he worked his way up from apprentice, to third mate, to second mate, to first mate and finally the captain of one of these beautiful ships.Joseph Conrad once said that everything about his life can be found in his books. Because the material for his first books are mainly autobiographical then Ian Burnet has been able to use a mixture of his own words, together with those of Conrad, to tell this story of Joseph Conrad's eastern voyages and his tales of Singapore and an East Borneo River.Conrad loved the 'mysterious East' and his first books - Almayers Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim and The Rescue were all set in Borneo and based on the people and places he encountered in his own voyages as first mate on a trading vessel based out of Singapore. In the latter part of this book Ian Burnet has taken the liberty to place the parts of these first novels into their proper narrative sequence and focus on the back-story of his characters, which will make it easier for readers to discover or rediscover Conrad's genius.Ian Burnet is the author of five books related to Maritime History and the Indonesian Archipelago. More information about his books - Spice Islands, East Indies, Archipelago, Where Australia Collides with Asia and The Tasman Map can be found on his website - www.ianburnetbooks.com

Author : Tamara S. Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114533669

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Occidentalism in Novels of Malaysia and Singapore, 1819-2004 by Tamara S. Wagner Pdf

Presents a thematic analysis of the English-language novels of Malaysia and Singapore focusing upon the ways that occidentalism and orientalism interact, influence, shape, and redefine each other. This book focuses on the central place that commerce and monetary values have in these works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113342716

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Asian Journal of Social Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3756256332

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A Smile of Fortune by Joseph Conrad Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Austronesian languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113533876

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Anthropologica by Anonim Pdf

Includes reports of meetings of the institute.

Author : Kim Salmons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319566238

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Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad by Kim Salmons Pdf

This book is about the role of food in the works of Joseph Conrad, analysing the social, political and anthropological context of references to meals, eating, food production and cannibalism. It offers a new perspective on the works of Joseph Conrad and provides an accessible medium through which readers can engage with the complex theories and philosophical dilemmas that Conrad presents in his fiction. This is the only major study of food in Conrad’s works; it is unique in its interdisciplinary approach to food in that it engages with sociological, political, historical, personal and literary perspectives, thus providing a multi-dimensional approach to cultural, revolutionary, periodical and fictional representations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This in turn, allows an interrogation of modern anxieties, embedded in cultural norms and values that can be interpreted through the way that food is prepared and eaten.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bali Island (Indonesia)
ISBN : 1900949733

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Bali Handbook with Lombok and the Eastern Isles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laura L. Davis
Publisher : East European Monographs
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047448918

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Conrad's Century by Laura L. Davis Pdf

Divided into two volumes, The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature offers a landmark collection of writings from twenty Christian thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and analyses of their work by leading contemporary religious scholars.With selections from the works of Jacques Maritain, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Dorothy Day, Pope John Paul II, Susan B. Anthony, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr., Nikolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Lossky, and others, Volume 2 illustrates the different venues, vectors, and sometimes-conflicting visions of what a Christian understanding of law, politics, and society entails. The collection includes works by popes, pastors, nuns, activists, and theologians writing from within the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian traditions. Addressing racism, totalitarianism, sexism, and other issues, many of the figures in this volume were the victims of church censure, exile, imprisonment, assassination, and death in Nazi concentration camps. These writings amplify the long and diverse tradition of modern Christian social thought and its continuing relevance to contemporary pluralistic societies. The volume speaks to questions regarding the nature and purpose of law and authority, the limits of rule and obedience, the care and nurture of the needy and innocent, the rights and wrongs of war and violence, and the separation of church and state. The historical focus and ecumenical breadth of this collection fills an important scholarly gap and revives the role of Christian social thought in legal and political theory.The first volume of The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law Politics, and Human Nature includes essays by leading contemporary religious scholars, exploring the ideas, influences, and intellectual and cultural contexts of the figures from this volume.

Author : A. Yeow
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132225371

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Conrad's Eastern Vision by A. Yeow Pdf

This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories and argues that it is precisely in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. The dialogism of Conrad's East resists any finalising meaning and its loophole lies in subjective vision. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage even as he stresses the veracity of his own Eastern vision.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Scholars
ISBN : UOM:49015002899004

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Directory of American Scholars: English speech and drama by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Indonesia
ISBN : UCSD:31822029541695

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Indonesia Handbook by Anonim Pdf