The Cambridge Introduction To Joseph Conrad

Author : John G. Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139457926
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad written by John G. Peters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Conrad is one of the most intriguing and important modernist novelists. His writing continues to preoccupy twenty-first-century readers. This introduction by a leading scholar is aimed at students coming to Conrad's work for the first time. The rise of postcolonial studies has inspired interest in Conrad's themes of travel, exploration, and racial and ethnic conflict. John Peters explains how these themes are explored in his major works, Nostromo, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, as well as his short stories. He provides an essential overview of Conrad's fascinating life and career and his approach to writing and literature. A guide to further reading is included which points to some of the most useful secondary criticism on Conrad. This is a most comprehensive and concise introduction to studying Conrad, and will be essential reading for students of the twentieth-century novel and of modernism.

Author : J. H. Stape
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139825177
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad written by J. H. Stape and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad offers a wide-ranging introduction to the fiction of Joseph Conrad, one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Through a series of essays by leading Conrad scholars aimed at both students and the general reader, the volume stimulates an informed appreciation of Conrad's work based on an understanding of his cultural and historical situations and fictional techniques. A chronology and overview of Conrad's life precede chapters that explore significant issues in his major writings, and deal in depth with individual works. These are followed by discussions of the special nature of Conrad's narrative techniques, his complex relationships with late-Victorian imperialism and with literary Modernism, and his influence on other writers and artists. Each essay provides guidance to further reading, and a concluding chapter surveys the body of Conrad criticism.

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ISBN 13 : 9780511334535
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive guide to Conrad's life, work, context and major themes.

Author : John G. Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad written by John G. Peters and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. H. Stape
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521484848
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad written by J. H. Stape and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.

Author : J. H. Stape
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035309
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad written by J. H. Stape and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers both students and scholars a comprehensive overview of the most recent developments in Conrad studies.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191582743
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart of Darkness and Other Tales written by Joseph Conrad and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Joseph Conrad
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under western eyes written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John G. Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110703485X
Total Pages : 289 pages
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Download or read book Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception written by John G. Peters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad.

Author : Andrea White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052141606X
Total Pages : 247 pages
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Download or read book Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition written by Andrea White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century adventure fiction relating to the British empire usually served to promote, celebrate and justify the imperial project, asserting the essential and privileging difference between 'us' and 'them', colonizing and colonized. Andrea White's study opens with an examination of popular exploration literature in relation to later adventure stories, showing how a shared view of the white man in the tropics authorized the European intrusion into other lands. She then sets the fiction of Joseph Conrad in this context, showing how Conrad in fact demythologized and disrupted the imperial subject constructed in earlier writing, by simultaneously - with the modernist's double vision - admiring man's capacity to dream but applauding the desire to condemn many of its consequences. She argues that the very complexity of Conrad's work provided an alternative, and more critical, means of evaluating the experience of empire.