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Provides an introduction to Joseph Conrad and the critical discussions surrounding his work.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Garsha, Jeremiah J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY : EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Criticism and interpretation.
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Political and social views.
Adventure stories, English > History and criticism.
Psychological fiction, English > History and criticism.
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Criticism.
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924.
Adventure fiction > History and criticism.
Psychological fiction > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • About This Volume
  • On Joseph Conrad
  • Biography of Joseph Conrad
  • Critical Contexts
  • Joseph Conrad-Imperial Writings in a Postcolonial World
  • The Discursive Evolution of Conrad's Critiques: A Historiography of Critical Receptions to Heart of Darkness
  • Travelling in Shadowlands-Colonialism and the Holocaust in Widmer's and Sebald's Textual Mining of Heart of Darkness
  • "Solidarity in Dreams": Community, Difference, and Race from Narcissus through Heart of Darkness
  • Critical Readings
  • Misogyny or Artistry? Conrad's Revisions of Two Heroines, from Serial to First Edition
  • The Conradian Legacy: Portrayal of "Half-made Societies" in Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas
  • Reading Lord Jim in the Twenty-First Century: The Context, the Immigrant, and the Lord
  • Joseph Conrad's Sense of Individuation in Almayer's Folly
  • Joseph Conrad on the Titanic: A Pioneering Spirit of Safety and Life at Sea Modeling Modernity
  • The Writer Who Foresaw Slow Food: Joseph Conrad and the Morality of Eating
  • Quantitative Elocutionary Methods: Joseph Conrad's Harmony and Juxtaposition in Heart of Darkness
  • The Unreadable Sea: Manliness in Joseph Conrad's Victory: An Island Tale (1915) and "The Tale" (1917)
  • Heart of Darkness and the Problem of Faith
  • Resources
  • Chronology of Joseph Conrad's Life
  • Works by Joseph Conrad
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Index.