Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered, Conrad

Автор: John G. Peters
Название: The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 0521548675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521548670
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: An essential book for students of the twentieth-century novel and of modernism, this introduction is aimed at students studying Conrad for the first time. John G. Peters explains how the key themes of travel and conflict are explored in the major works, Nostromo, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.

Автор: Stape
Название: The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 1107610370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107610378
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Описание: This volume makes authoritative scholarship on the ever-growing body of criticism and research on one of the key writers of literary modernism accessible. The emphasis on emergent critical approaches helps the reader make sense of recent developments and encourages further exploration, assisted by the guide to further reading.

Автор: Freedman William
Название: Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge
ISBN: 161117306X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611173062
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Описание: Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marvelled 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 wilful 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 fervour, they protectively obscure what they have barely glimpsed or else retreat to an armoury 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. 

Автор: Bradbrook
Название: Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 1107689244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107689244
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Описание: Originally published in 1941, this book provides a brief study of the life and work of Joseph Conrad through the lens of his writings. Bradbrook divides Conrad`s stories by three main themes: the wonders of the deep, the hollow men and recollections in tranquillity, in order to show Conrad`s literary development.