Author: Joseph Conrad
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Almayer's folly. Tales of unrest
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The Works of Joseph Conrad: Almayer's folly. Tales of unrest
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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The Idiots
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9181080883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
»The Idiots« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1896. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, and ended his career as a captain in the English merchant navy. His most famous work is the novella Heart of Darkness [1899], adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 as Apocalypse Now.
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9181080883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
»The Idiots« is a short story by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1896. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, and ended his career as a captain in the English merchant navy. His most famous work is the novella Heart of Darkness [1899], adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 as Apocalypse Now.
The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Conrad: Almayer’s Folly to Under Western Eyes
Author: Daniel R Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349051896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349051896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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HEART OF DARKNESS AND TALES OF UNREST.
Author: JOSEPH. CONRAD
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ISBN: 9781398834439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781398834439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Golden Book Magazine
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Through Uganda to Mount Elgon
Author: John Bremner Purvis
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge
Author: William Freedman
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611173078
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
An alternate view of the perplexing and often contradictory fiction of an elusive author Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marveled at more routinely than Joseph Conrad for the perplexing evasiveness, contradictoriness, and indeterminacy of their fiction. William Freedman argues that the explanations typically offered for these identifying characteristics of much of Conrad's work are inadequate if not mistaken. Freedman's claim is that the illusiveness of a coherent interpretation of Conrad's novels and shorter fictions is owed not primarily to the inherent slipperiness or inadequacy of language or the consequence of a willful self-deconstruction. Nor is it a product of the writer's philosophical nihilism or a realized aesthetic of suggestive vagueness. Rather, Freedman argues, the perplexing elusiveness of Conrad's fiction is the consequence of a pervasive ambivalence toward threatening knowledge, a protective reluctance and recoil that are not only inscribed in Conrad's tales and novels, but repeatedly declared, defended, and explained in his letters and essays. Conrad's narrators and protagonists often set out on an apparent quest for hidden knowledge or are drawn into one. But repelled or intimidated by the looming consequences of their own curiosity and fervor, they protectively obscure what they have barely glimpsed or else retreat to an armory of practiced distractions. The result is a confusingly choreographed dance of approach and withdrawal, fascination and revulsion, revelation and concealment. The riddling contradictions of these fictions are thus in large measure the result of this ambivalence, their evasiveness the mark of intimidation's triumph over fascination. The idea of dangerous and forbidden knowledge is at least as old as Genesis, and Freedman provides a background for Conrad's recoil from full exposure in the rich admonitory history of such knowledge in theology, myth, philosophy, and literature. He traces Conrad's impassioned, at times pleading case for protective avoidance in the writer's letters, essays, and prefaces, and he elucidates its enactment and its connection to Conrad's signature evasiveness in a number of short stories and novels, with special attention to The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Under Western Eyes, and The Rescue.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611173078
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
An alternate view of the perplexing and often contradictory fiction of an elusive author Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marveled at more routinely than Joseph Conrad for the perplexing evasiveness, contradictoriness, and indeterminacy of their fiction. William Freedman argues that the explanations typically offered for these identifying characteristics of much of Conrad's work are inadequate if not mistaken. Freedman's claim is that the illusiveness of a coherent interpretation of Conrad's novels and shorter fictions is owed not primarily to the inherent slipperiness or inadequacy of language or the consequence of a willful self-deconstruction. Nor is it a product of the writer's philosophical nihilism or a realized aesthetic of suggestive vagueness. Rather, Freedman argues, the perplexing elusiveness of Conrad's fiction is the consequence of a pervasive ambivalence toward threatening knowledge, a protective reluctance and recoil that are not only inscribed in Conrad's tales and novels, but repeatedly declared, defended, and explained in his letters and essays. Conrad's narrators and protagonists often set out on an apparent quest for hidden knowledge or are drawn into one. But repelled or intimidated by the looming consequences of their own curiosity and fervor, they protectively obscure what they have barely glimpsed or else retreat to an armory of practiced distractions. The result is a confusingly choreographed dance of approach and withdrawal, fascination and revulsion, revelation and concealment. The riddling contradictions of these fictions are thus in large measure the result of this ambivalence, their evasiveness the mark of intimidation's triumph over fascination. The idea of dangerous and forbidden knowledge is at least as old as Genesis, and Freedman provides a background for Conrad's recoil from full exposure in the rich admonitory history of such knowledge in theology, myth, philosophy, and literature. He traces Conrad's impassioned, at times pleading case for protective avoidance in the writer's letters, essays, and prefaces, and he elucidates its enactment and its connection to Conrad's signature evasiveness in a number of short stories and novels, with special attention to The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Under Western Eyes, and The Rescue.
Tramps in Dark Mongolia
Author: John Hedley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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