Joseph Conrad And The Orient

Author : Amar Acheraïou,Nursel Ic̦öz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Orient
ISBN : 0880336943

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Joseph Conrad and the Orient by Amar Acheraïou,Nursel Ic̦öz Pdf

Joseph Conrad and the Orient is the first major study that deeply explores Conrad's perception and construction of the Orient in his Malay fiction. While it entertains a sustained dialogue with past and recent studies of Conrad's handling of colonial cross-cultural encounters, imperial ideology and race politics, this collection of original essays extends the debates on these key issues. The authors adopt a variety of critical and methodological perspectives-socio-political, anthropological, philosophical, postcolonial, poststructuralist, historical, and linguistic-in order to illuminate the richness, complexity and multi-dimensional character of Conrad's work. Overall, these compelling approaches enlighten Conrad's deep engagement with the East, not only as a crucial source of fictional material, but also as a polyphonic discursive space, a cultural and racial Other, an ideological construct, and a site of Western struggle for global commercial hegemony and native anti-colonial resistance.

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804153867

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Orientalism by Edward W. Said Pdf

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

Author : A. Acheraïou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230250833

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Joseph Conrad and the Reader by A. Acheraïou Pdf

Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limits of deconstructionist theories, introducing groundbreaking new theoretical concepts of reading and reception.

Author : Gavin Young
Publisher : Payot
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2228886610

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In search of Conrad by Gavin Young Pdf

Comment voyager en Orient sans mettre quelque jour ses pas, ou ses rêves, dans ceux de Conrad ? Plus que tout autre, peut-être, "Joe le Polonais" en a fait la chair même de ses livres : Lord Jim, Tom Lingard, Almeyer, tant d'autres de ses héros (et d'ailleurs presque tous) ont réellement existé. N'est-ce pas cette intrication de la littérature et de la vie qui nous fascine, chez lui, et gêne si souvent les critiques académiques ? Un voyage presque initiatique, entrepris par le plus conradien des écrivains-voyageurs anglais, qui renoue patiemment les fils de la mémoire, depuis Singapour et le détroit de Makassar, sur les tombes de Lord Jim et des fils d'Almeyer, jusqu'au Berau presque inexploré, ce fleuve de Bornéo jadis découvert par Tom Lingard. Derrière les personnages bien vivants rencontrés en chemin glissent, de plus en plus obsédants, les fantômes de tous ceux qui, comme disait Conrad, "ont, aux yeux des rares personnes informées, coloré d'un esprit romanesque cette région qui s'étend vers l'Orient mystérieux".

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231140053

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Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography by Edward W. Said Pdf

Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and Africa, projects political dimensions in his work that mirror a colonialist preoccupation with "civilizing" native peoples. Said then suggests that this dimension should be considered when reading all of Western literature. First published in 1966, Said's critique of the Western self's struggle with modernity signaled the beginnings of his groundbreaking work, Orientalism, and remains a cornerstone of postcolonial studies today.

Author : Columbia University Press
Publisher : Maria Curie-Skodowska University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8322794576

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Joseph Conrad and Ethics by Columbia University Press Pdf

Joseph Conrad's ethical perspective is one of the deepest in twentieth-century fiction, yet it has been overlooked in recent scholarship. Joseph Conrad and Ethics is fully devoted to ethics in Conrad's fiction. It offers a thorough, in-depth analysis of Conrad's ethical reflection that challenges and extends current discussions.

Author : L. Dryden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230597075

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Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance by L. Dryden Pdf

Linda Dryden places Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands , 'Karain', and Lord Jim in the context of the nineteenth-century imperial romance. Through the thwarted dreams and aspirations of his central characters she argues that Conrad exposes the empty promises of such fiction and challenges assumptions about the superiority of European imperialists and the imperial venture itself. Using illustrations from and references to many well-known novels of Empire, Dryden demonstrates how Conrad's Malay fiction alludes to the conventions and stereotypes of popular imperial fiction.

Author : A. Acheraïou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230583573

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Rethinking Postcolonialism by A. Acheraïou Pdf

Acheraiou challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a new model of interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the Colonial idea. He questions key issues, including hybridity, Otherness and territoriality, and expands the postcolonial field by introducing ground-breaking theoretical concepts.

Author : Alice M. Kelly
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800855229

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Decolonising the Conrad Canon by Alice M. Kelly Pdf

With the pressing work of decolonising our reading lists gaining traction in UK higher educational contexts, Decolonising the Conrad Canon shows how those author-Gods most associated with the colonial literary canon can also be retooled through decolonial, queer, feminist readings. This book finds pockets of powerful anti-colonial resistance and queer dissonance in Joseph Conrad’s lesser-known works – breathing spaces from the colonial rhetoric that dominates his novels – and traces the female characters who voice them off the page and into their transmedia (digital/illustrative/cinematic) afterlives. From Immada and Edith’s queer gaze in The Rescue and the periodical illustrations that accompanied its initial serialization, to Aïssa’s sustained critique of imperialism in An Outcast of the Islands and her portrayal on mass-market paperback book covers, to the structural female bonds of Almayer’s Folly and Nina’s embodiment in Chantal Akerman’s adaptation La Folie Almayer, this book centres Conrad’s female characters as viable, meaning-making citizens of the canon. Through this intervention, Decolonising the Conrad Canon proposes an innovative model for teaching, reading and studying not just Joseph Conrad’s work but the colonial literary canon more broadly.

Author : John G. Peters
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Richard J. Hand
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230510531

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The Theatre of Joseph Conrad by Richard J. Hand Pdf

Although the dramatic dimension to Joseph Conrad's fiction is frequently acknowledged, his own experiments in drama have traditionally been marginalized. However, in all of Conrad's plays we see a distinct effort to investigate seriously the dramatic form and some of his plays are startlingly ahead of their time. Furthermore, all of the plays are adaptations and comprise One Day More , based on Tomorrow , Laughing Anne , based on Because of the Dollars, Victory: A Drama and The Secret Agent . The creation of these reveals much about the history, theory and practice of this fascinating cultural process.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473375123

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The Shadow Line - A Confession by Joseph Conrad Pdf

This volume contains Joseph Conrad's 1916 short novel, "The Shadow-Line". It is a semi-autobiographical tale of a young man who takes up a captaincy in the Orient. This significantly fictionalised account of Conrad's first command as a young sea captain constitutes one of his late masterpieces, and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of his work. Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was a Polish-born author. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Author : Michael North
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195122917

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The Dialect of Modernism by Michael North Pdf

The Dialect of Modernism is the second volume in Oxford's new Race and American Culture series.

Author : Keith Carabine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005188342

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Joseph Conrad: Relations and aspects; The modern critical response, 1948-92 by Keith Carabine Pdf

Author : Daniel Foliard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226451336

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Dislocating the Orient by Daniel Foliard Pdf

While the twentieth century’s conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With Dislocating the Orient, Daniel Foliard tells the story of how the land was brought into being, exploring how maps, knowledge, and blind ignorance all participated in the construction of this imagined region. Foliard vividly illustrates how the British first defined the Middle East as a geopolitical and cartographic region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through their imperial maps. Until then, the region had never been clearly distinguished from “the East” or “the Orient.” In the course of their colonial activities, however, the British began to conceive of the Middle East as a separate and distinct part of the world, with consequences that continue to be felt today. As they reimagined boundaries, the British produced, disputed, and finally dramatically transformed the geography of the area—both culturally and physically—over the course of their colonial era. Using a wide variety of primary texts and historical maps to show how the idea of the Middle East came into being, Dislocating the Orient will interest historians of the Middle East, the British empire, cultural geography, and cartography.