Conrad Under Polish Eyes During World War II
Author : Stefan Zabierowski
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
ISBN :
Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul
Author : G. W. Stephen Brodsky
Publisher : Maria Curie-Skodowska University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Poland
ISBN : 9788377847862
Book Description
Born into a Polish szlachta (noble) family, the extraordinary modern novelist Joseph Conrad maintained, even in exile, strong ties to his Polish heritage and culture. Yet the author earned renown by writing in English, often about nautical adventures in remote parts of the world. In Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, G. W. Stephen Brodsky seeks to reclaim the essentially Polish sensibility of Conrad's groundbreaking oeuvre. He finds in Conrad's work a distinct Polonism that plays intriguingly with selfhood, freedom, and irony. For Brodsky, Conrad's outlook and writing betray numerous contradictions. Despite the novelist's practical realism, Conrad was drawn to romance, orientalism, and the exotic. Frequently sick, he nevertheless pursued a life at sea. He despised adventurers, yet loved risk. An instinctive skepticism, conservatism, and nationalism complicated his liberalism and respect for humanity, and though he resigned himself to Poland's tragic destiny, Conrad refused to despair over the terribleness of his times. In this incomparable study, Brodsky shows how these inherent aspects of Conrad's personality inform and guide his Polonism, along with the best attributes of his fiction.
Conrad Under Familial Eyes
Author : Zdzislaw Najder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521250825
Book Description
Edited by an eminent Conrad scholar, this volume contains many texts never before available in Enlish, including letters to Conrad from his parents and uncle-guardian, accounts of his early life, and his relations with Poland.
Joseph Conrad in Context
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Joseph Conrad Conference in Poland 5-12 September 1972
Author : Róża Jabłkowska
Publisher : Zakad Nar Nauk
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Adventure stories, English
ISBN :
Book Description
Conrad Without Borders
Author : Brendan Kavanagh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350293164
Book Description
A diverse and multinational volume, this book showcases the passages of Joseph Conrad's narratives across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, focusing on the transtextual and transcultural elements of his fiction. Featuring contributions from distinguished and emergent Conrad scholars, it unpacks the transformative meanings which Conrad's narratives have achieved in crossing national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Featuring studies on the reception of Conrad in modern China, an exploration of Conrad's relationship with India, a comparative study of the hybrid art of Conrad and Salman Rushdie, and the responses of Conrad's narratives to alternative media forms, this volume brings out transtextual relations among Conrad's works and various media forms, world narratives, philosophies, and emergent modes of critical inquiry. Gathering essays by contributors from Canada, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this volume constitutes an inclusive, transnational networking of emergent border-crossing scholarship.
A Preface to Conrad
Author : Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Professor) Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317874277
Book Description
Widely recommended, this guide to Conrad offers a vivid and incisive account of his life and literary career, and gives detailed attention to the contexts, themes, problems and paradoxes of his works.
Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception
Author : John G. Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107245125
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Joseph Conrad's novels and short stories have consistently figured into - and helped to define - the dominant trends in literary criticism. This book is the first to provide a thorough yet accessible overview of Conrad scholarship and criticism spanning the entire history of Conrad studies, from the 1895 publication of his first book, Almayer's Folly, to the present. While tracing the general evolution of the commentary surrounding Conrad's work, John G. Peters's careful analysis also evaluates Conrad's impact on critical trends such as the belles lettres tradition, the New Criticism, psychoanalysis, structuralist and post-structuralist criticism, narratology, postcolonial studies, gender and women's studies, and ecocriticism. The breadth and scope of Peters's study make this text an essential resource for Conrad scholars and students of English literature and literary criticism.
Under Western Eyes
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin -- his close friend -- he must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity.
The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe
Author : Robert Hampson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474241107
Book Description
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.
