Author : J. H. Stape
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 1996-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521484848
Leading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.
Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107132819
This Companion provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Covering subjects from disability and diaspora to the sublime and the city, this Companion reveals the myriad traditions that have shaped the postcolonial literary landscape.
Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2001-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1461732026
In Joseph Conrad: A Biography, acclaimed writer Jeffrey Meyers presents the definitive account of the life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, and many other landmarks in modern literature. Meyers' biography, published for the first time in paperback by Cooper Square Press, is the first biography of the author in many years. Joseph Conrad brings to light new information about Conrad's life and its impact on his fiction: new models emerge for his characters, including Heart of Darkness' Kurtz, and Meyers also examines in great detail Conrad's relationship with the wild and beautiful American journalist Jane Anderson.
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828118
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
Author : Morag Shiach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052185444X
The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0191582743
HEART OF DARKNESS * AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS * KARAIN * YOUTH The finest of all Conrad's tales, 'Heart of Darkness' is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr Kurtz. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature. Endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted for film, radio, and television, the story shows Conrad at his most intense and sophisticated. The other three tales in this volume depict corruption and obsession, and question racial assumptions. Set in the exotic surroundings of Africa, Malaysia. and the east, they variously appraise the glamour, folly, and rapacity of imperial adventure. This revised edition uses the English first edition texts and has a new chronology and bibliography. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Julian W. Connolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521829571
The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov provides a concise introduction to the creative world of one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Fourteen individual essays cover such topics as Nabokov's storytelling techniques, his achievements as a short story writer, his evolution as a novelist, his relationship to the literary currents of his day, his world-view, and his lasting artistic legacy, particularly through Lolita, his most famous and controversial work. The volume also contains a chronology of his life and a guide to further reading.
Author : J. H. Stape
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107035309
This volume offers both students and scholars a comprehensive overview of the most recent developments in Conrad studies.
Author : Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828231
In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.
Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110749494X
This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.
