Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception

Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception
Author: John G. Peters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-04-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107245125

Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Joseph Conrad's novels and short stories have consistently figured into - and helped to define - the dominant trends in literary criticism. This book is the first to provide a thorough yet accessible overview of Conrad scholarship and criticism spanning the entire history of Conrad studies, from the 1895 publication of his first book, Almayer's Folly, to the present. While tracing the general evolution of the commentary surrounding Conrad's work, John G. Peters's careful analysis also evaluates Conrad's impact on critical trends such as the belles lettres tradition, the New Criticism, psychoanalysis, structuralist and post-structuralist criticism, narratology, postcolonial studies, gender and women's studies, and ecocriticism. The breadth and scope of Peters's study make this text an essential resource for Conrad scholars and students of English literature and literary criticism.

The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe
Author: Robert Hampson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2022-05-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474241107

Born and brought up in Poland bilingually in French and Polish but living for most of his professional life in England and writing in English, Joseph Conrad was, from the start, as much a European writer as he was a British one and his work – from his earliest fictions through Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent to his later novels– has repeatedly been the focal point of discussions about key issues of the modern age. With chapters written by leading international scholars, this book provides a wide-ranging survey of the reception, translation and publication history of Conrad's works across Europe. Covering reviews and critical discussion, and with some attention to adaptations in other media, these chapters situate Conrad's works in their social and political context. The book also includes bibliographies of key translations in each of the European countries covered and a timeline of Conrad's reception throughout the continent.

Under Western Eyes

Under Western Eyes
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1911
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin -- his close friend -- he must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity.

Conrad's Fiction as Critical Discourse

Conrad's Fiction as Critical Discourse
Author: Richard Ambrosini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1991-07-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521403498

Joseph Conrad's comments about his works have commonly been dismissed as theoretically unsophisticated, while the critical notions of James, Woolf and Joyce have come to shape our understanding of the modern novel. Richard Ambrosini's study of Conrad's Fiction as Critical Discourse makes an original claim for the importance of his theoretical ideas as they are formed, tested, and eventually redefined in Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. Setting the narrator's discourse in these tales in the context of the dynamic interplay of Conrad's fictional with his non-fictional writings, and of the transformations in his narrative forms, Ambrosini defines Conrad's view of fiction and the artistic ideal underlying his commitment as a writer in a new and challenging way. Conrad's innovatory techniques as a novelist are shown in the continuity of his theoretical enterprise, from the early search for an artistic prose and a personal novel form, to the later dislocations of perspective achieved by manipulation of conventions drawn from popular fiction. This reassessment of Conrad's critical thought offers a new perspective on the transition from the Victorian novel to contemporary fiction.

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad
Author: J. H. Stape
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996-06-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521484848

Leading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.

Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception

Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception
Author: John G. Peters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-04-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 110703485X

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad.

Conrad's Decentered Fiction

Conrad's Decentered Fiction
Author: Johan Adam Warodell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2022-03-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316512193

Brings the vibrant details of Conrad's writing to the forefront for study and analyzes newly-discovered artworks, maps, and manuscript pages.

Victory

Victory
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1924
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: