Author: Joseph Conrad
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Victory
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Reading Conrad
Author: Joseph Hillis Miller
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ISBN: 9780814213483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
For half a century, J. Hillis Miller has been a premier figure in English and comparative literature, influencing and leading the direction of literary studies. What is less well-known is that he has been equally influential in Conrad studies with his work on nihilism, language, and narrative in Joseph Conrad's fiction. Reading Conrad, authored by J. Hillis Miller and edited by John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe, charts Miller's shifting insights into Joseph Conrad's fiction
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814213483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
For half a century, J. Hillis Miller has been a premier figure in English and comparative literature, influencing and leading the direction of literary studies. What is less well-known is that he has been equally influential in Conrad studies with his work on nihilism, language, and narrative in Joseph Conrad's fiction. Reading Conrad, authored by J. Hillis Miller and edited by John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe, charts Miller's shifting insights into Joseph Conrad's fiction
A Little Book. [On the Creation, with special reference to the Book of Revelation.]
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Category : Children's books
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Category : Children's books
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Dawn Watch
Author: Maya Jasanoff
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698137477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
“Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world. Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in England as an author. He saw the surging, competitive "new imperialism" that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places “beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,” and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works—The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spell-binding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world—and through it to our own.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698137477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
“Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world. Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in England as an author. He saw the surging, competitive "new imperialism" that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places “beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,” and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works—The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spell-binding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world—and through it to our own.
Joseph Conrad and the Reader
Author: A. Acheraïou
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230250831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230250831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Heart of Darkness
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Languages : en
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Joseph Conrad and the Reader
Author: Amar Acheraiou
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Pt. I. Theoretical perspectives -- 1. Conrad's conception of authorship : probing the implications and limits of the death-of-the-author theory -- Pt. II. Reception theory : reading as a cultural and ideological construct -- 2. Polish responses : art and the rthics of collectivity -- 3. British reception : Englishness and the act of reading -- Pt. III. Aesthetic ramifications, narrative entanglements, and fictional readers -- 4. Conrad's visual aesthetics : classical and modern connections -- 5. A cartography of Conrad's fictional readers : reading hierarchy in Lord Jim, 'Heart of Darkness', Nostromo, and Victory -- 6. Narrative solidarity and competition for truth and signification -- 7. Conrad and the construction of the reader : tension between democratic vision and aristocratic leaning -- 8. Narrative self-consciousness and the act of reading : examining Under Western Eyes through the lens of the poetics of Fielding, Sterne, and Diderot.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Pt. I. Theoretical perspectives -- 1. Conrad's conception of authorship : probing the implications and limits of the death-of-the-author theory -- Pt. II. Reception theory : reading as a cultural and ideological construct -- 2. Polish responses : art and the rthics of collectivity -- 3. British reception : Englishness and the act of reading -- Pt. III. Aesthetic ramifications, narrative entanglements, and fictional readers -- 4. Conrad's visual aesthetics : classical and modern connections -- 5. A cartography of Conrad's fictional readers : reading hierarchy in Lord Jim, 'Heart of Darkness', Nostromo, and Victory -- 6. Narrative solidarity and competition for truth and signification -- 7. Conrad and the construction of the reader : tension between democratic vision and aristocratic leaning -- 8. Narrative self-consciousness and the act of reading : examining Under Western Eyes through the lens of the poetics of Fielding, Sterne, and Diderot.
Joseph Conrad and Ethics
Author: Columbia University Press
Publisher: Maria Curie-Skodowska University Press
ISBN: 9788322794579
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Maria Curie-Skodowska University Press
ISBN: 9788322794579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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.
Essays on Conrad
Author: Ian Watt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521783873
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A landmark collection of Ian Watt's essays on Joseph Conrad.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521783873
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A landmark collection of Ian Watt's essays on Joseph Conrad.
The Historian's Heart of Darkness
Author: Mark D. Larabee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440851077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Fiction has power to portray historical truth. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to students and general readers as an insightful guide to the history of Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The phrase "heart of darkness" has become a term commonly used to conjure an ominous sense of hidden or deeply rooted evil. How did these words become so evocative? The answer lies in the richness and acute insight of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's story based on his 1890 journey on the Congo River. Conrad's novella illustrates many crucial themes of European and world history through the last two centuries: civilization; exploration; colonialism and imperialism; race and conflict based on race; trade and globalization; commercial exploitation; and the impact of changing technology, especially for communication and transport. Heart of Darkness deserves to be studied today for its value as social and cultural history. In this edition, Conrad's story is shown to reveal important truths not only about Europe and Africa a century ago, but also about the historical forces that shape the world we live in now. Featuring the texts of both Heart of Darkness and Conrad's autobiographical Congo Diary along with more than 200 annotations, this book enables readers to appreciate the connections between Conrad's writing and its historical context. Introductory essays explain how Conrad was uniquely positioned to chronicle history, provide critical background information on how Europeans partitioned Africa and created the Congo Free State, and describe how the ivory and rubber trades brutalized the natives. Readers will learn how Conrad contributed to European awareness of the atrocities committed and understand how the story's literary qualities form an essential part of its historical meaning. The numerous illustrations and maps depicting the historical Congo Free State provide a visual element to the story of Heart of Darkness—a fictionalized tale that can be interpreted as history and that can help us interpret today's postcolonial, globalized world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440851077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Fiction has power to portray historical truth. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to students and general readers as an insightful guide to the history of Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The phrase "heart of darkness" has become a term commonly used to conjure an ominous sense of hidden or deeply rooted evil. How did these words become so evocative? The answer lies in the richness and acute insight of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's story based on his 1890 journey on the Congo River. Conrad's novella illustrates many crucial themes of European and world history through the last two centuries: civilization; exploration; colonialism and imperialism; race and conflict based on race; trade and globalization; commercial exploitation; and the impact of changing technology, especially for communication and transport. Heart of Darkness deserves to be studied today for its value as social and cultural history. In this edition, Conrad's story is shown to reveal important truths not only about Europe and Africa a century ago, but also about the historical forces that shape the world we live in now. Featuring the texts of both Heart of Darkness and Conrad's autobiographical Congo Diary along with more than 200 annotations, this book enables readers to appreciate the connections between Conrad's writing and its historical context. Introductory essays explain how Conrad was uniquely positioned to chronicle history, provide critical background information on how Europeans partitioned Africa and created the Congo Free State, and describe how the ivory and rubber trades brutalized the natives. Readers will learn how Conrad contributed to European awareness of the atrocities committed and understand how the story's literary qualities form an essential part of its historical meaning. The numerous illustrations and maps depicting the historical Congo Free State provide a visual element to the story of Heart of Darkness—a fictionalized tale that can be interpreted as history and that can help us interpret today's postcolonial, globalized world.