Joseph Conrad Betrayal And Identity

Author : Robert Hampson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349223022

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Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity by Robert Hampson Pdf

Through attention to incidents of betrayal and self-betrayal in his fiction, this book traces the development of Conrad's conception of identity through the three phases of his career: the self in isolation, the self in society and the sexualised self. It shows how the early fiction negotiates the opposed dangers of the self-ideal and the surrender to passion; how the middle fiction tests the ideal code psychologically and ideologically; and how the late fiction probes sexuality and morbid psychology.

Author : R. G. Hampson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : English fiction
ISBN : LCCN:91037676

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Joseph Conrad by R. G. Hampson Pdf

Through attention to incidents of betrayal and self-betrayal in his fiction, this book traces the development of Conrad's conception of identity through the three phases of his career: the self in isolation, the self in society and the sexualized self. It shows how the early fiction negotiates the opposed dangers of the self-ideal and the surrender to passion; how the middle fiction tests the ideal code psychologically and ideologically; and how the late fiction probes sexuality and morbid psychology. It challenges the conventional construction of Conrad's career in terms of 'achievement and decline', and makes illuminating use of Laingian psychology.

Author : Robert Gavin Hampson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:728451281

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Identity and Betrayal in the Novels of Joseph Conrad by Robert Gavin Hampson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Joseph Conrad in Context by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jay Parker,Joyce Wexler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030724993

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Joseph Conrad and Postcritique by Jay Parker,Joyce Wexler Pdf

This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad’s central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lord Jim. Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique ascribes positive value to the knowledge, affect, ethics, and politics that emerge from literature. The essays in this collection recognize the dark elements in Conrad’s fiction—deceit, vanity, avarice, lust, cynicism, and cruelty—yet they perceive hopefulness as well. Conrad’s skepticism unveils the dark heart of politics, and his critical heritage can feed our fear that humanity is incapable of improving. This Conrad is a well-known figure, but there is another, neglected Conrad that this book aims to bring to light, one who delves into the politics of hope as well as the politics of fear. Chapters 1 and 2 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

Author : D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134246724

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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness by D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke Pdf

Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilisation, race, love and heroism. This classic tale transcends the boundaries of time and place and has inspired famous film and television adaptations emphasising the cultural significance and continued relevance of the book. This guide to Conrad’s captivating novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Heart of Darkness a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new essays and reprinted critical essays on Heart of Darkness, by Ian Watt, Linda Dryden, Ruth Nadelhaft, J. Hillis Miller and Peter Brooks, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Heart of Darkness and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Conrad's text.

Author : Robert Hampson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789143034

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Joseph Conrad by Robert Hampson Pdf

Joseph Conrad is widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. Robert Hampson traces Conrad’s life from his childhood in a Russian penal colony, through his early manhood in Marseille and his years in the British Merchant Navy, to his career as a novelist. This critical biography describes how these experiences inspired Conrad’s work, from his early Malay novels to his best-known work, Heart of Darkness. Hampson also discusses Conrad’s important relations with other writers, in particular Ford Madox Ford, as well as his late-life political engagements and his relationships with women. Featuring new interpretations of all of Conrad’s major works, this is an original interpretation of Conrad’s life of writing.

Author : Robert Hampson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137584625

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Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism by Robert Hampson Pdf

In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language’: even his shipboard communities were the product of a ‘cosmopolitan’ vision. This book takes off from that criticism and begins by exploring the history and meanings of the term ‘cosmopolitan’. It then considers the multinational world of Conrad’s ships – and of the Merchant Marine more generally – to differentiate multinationalism from cosmopolitanism. Subsequent chapters then address nationalism, nation-formation and the concept of the nation through a reading of Nostromo; cosmopolitanism and internationalism in The Secret Agent; nationalism, internationalism and transnational activism in relation to Under Westen Eyes; and Conrad’s own transnational activism in his later essays. While drawing distinctions between cosmopolitanism, internationalism and transnationalism as the appropriate conceptual framings for Conrad’s works, this book traces Conrad’s own engagement with nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transnational activism in relation to the political events of his time.

Author : Tim Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135137298

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Joseph Conrad by Tim Middleton Pdf

The popular yet complex work of Joseph Conrad has attracted much critical attention over the years, from the perspectives of postcolonial, modernist, cultural and gender studies. This guide to his compelling work presents: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Conrad’s texts, from publication to the present an introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Conrad’s life and work, situated in a broader critical history cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Joseph Conrad and seeking not only a guide to his works, but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.

Author : James Alexander Fraser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137595881

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Joyce & Betrayal by James Alexander Fraser Pdf

This book offers a fundamental and comprehensive re-evaluation of one of Joyce’s most pervasive themes. By showing that betrayal was central to how Joyce understood and depicted the difficulties and terrors at the heart of all relationships, this book re-conceives Joyce’s approach to history, politics, and the other. Leaving behind the pathologizing discourses by which Joyce’s interest in betrayal has been treated as an ‘obsession,’ this book offers a vision of Joyce as both dramatist and theorist of betrayal. It demonstrates that, rather than being compelled by some unconscious urge to produce and reproduce textual betrayals, Joyce had a deep and hard-won conception of the specific dramatic energies wrapped up in the language and structures of betrayal and repeatedly found ways to make use of this understanding in his work.

Author : Robert Hampson,Véronique Pauly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474241106

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The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe by Robert Hampson,Véronique Pauly Pdf

Born and brought up in Poland bilingually in French and Polish but living for most of his professional life in England and writing in English, Joseph Conrad was, from the start, as much a European writer as he was a British one and his work – from his earliest fictions through Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent to his later novels– has repeatedly been the focal point of discussions about key issues of the modern age. With chapters written by leading international scholars, this book provides a wide-ranging survey of the reception, translation and publication history of Conrad's works across Europe. Covering reviews and critical discussion, and with some attention to adaptations in other media, these chapters situate Conrad's works in their social and political context. The book also includes bibliographies of key translations in each of the European countries covered and a timeline of Conrad's reception throughout the continent.

Author : Joyce Wexler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030868451

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Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today by Joyce Wexler Pdf

This book explores how the anarchist fiction of Joseph Conrad can help us understand terrorism today. Conrad undermines the popular view that terrorists are fanatics. He portrays anarchists and police as counterparts driven by the human desires for autonomy and affiliation, the need to control their own lives and to be part of a group. Postcritique encourages readers to consider the accuracy of such information, and research in Terrorism Studies confirms Conrad’s insights: his characters are more realistic and his political stance is more hopeful than critics have recognized.

Author : R. Hampson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230598003

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction by R. Hampson Pdf

This is the first major study to bring together for examination all of Conrad's Malay fiction: the early novels, Almayer's Folly , An Outcast of the Islands , and Lord Jim ; the two later novels, Victory and The Rescue ; and various short stories, such as The Lagoon and Karain . The volume focuses on cross-cultural encounters, cultural identity and cultural dislocation, paying particular attention to issues of race and gender. He also situates Conrad's fiction in relation to earlier English accounts of South-East Asia.

Author : Andrew Michael Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317891413

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Joseph Conrad by Andrew Michael Roberts Pdf

Joseph Conrad is a key figure in modernist fiction, whose innovative work engages with many of the crucial philosophical, moral and political concerns of the twentieth century. This collection of major critical readings of his work is arranged according to the issues which each critic addresses, issues which are of crucial importance, and in many cases remain controversial, within contemporary literary theory and criticism. Following an opening section on the critical tradition, indicating how the study of Conrad's work has been politicised since the 1970s, there are sections on 'Narrative, Textuality and Interpretation', 'Imperialism', 'Gender and Sexuality', 'Class and Ideology', and 'Modernity'. Within each section two or three critical excerpts offer contrasting and complementary accounts of the fiction, while the headnotes to each piece and the introduction place these excerpts within the wider critical debate, clarifying for the reader both the theoretical issues and the interpretation of Conrad's fiction. A glossary of terms and a bibliography categorised by critical approach complete a volume which will provide an invaluable resource for students of Conrad and twentieth-century literature as well as other readers of Conrad's work.

Author : Michael Greaney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139430906

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Conrad, Language, and Narrative by Michael Greaney Pdf

In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. A trilingual Polish expatriate, Conrad brought a formidable linguistic self-consciousness to the English novel; tensions between speech and writing are the defining obsessions of his career. He sought very early on to develop a 'writing of the voice' based on oral or communal modes of storytelling. Greaney argues that the 'yarns' of his nautical raconteur Marlow are the most challenging expression of this voice-centred aesthetic. But Conrad's suspicion that words are fundamentally untrustworthy is present in everything he wrote. The political novels of his middle period represent a breakthrough from traditional storytelling into the writerly aesthetic of high modernism. Greaney offers an examination of a wide range of Conrad's work which combines recent critical approaches to language in post-structuralism with an impressive command of linguistic theory.