Focuses on the novels written in the first decade of the twentieth century, illuminating Conrad's exploration of the contradictions inherent in human relations
3009 Cox, C. B. “Introduction,” Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether (London: Dent [Collected Editions of the Works of Joseph Conrad]; [Everyman's Library], 1974), pp. vii-xxii. In the Youth volume, JC revealed two aspects of ...
Levenson points out the tendency to such a dualism in the pronouncements of modernists like Eliot and Pound, and suggests that it conceals the 'suppressed transitions which unite all contrasts'.57 A number of critics have argued that ...
Bernard Meyer's Joseph Conrad: A Psychoanalytic Biography (1967) probed the author's psychology to a far greater extent than Said's work. Meyer, a practising psychoanalyst, offers a provocatively speculative study of the author's life ...
Ford and Pent Farm 1898—1902 I In early September 1898, while visiting the Garnetts at the Cearne near Lirnpsfield, Surrey, Conrad met Ford Madox Ford (then called Hueffer) and began the literary friendship that had the greatest impact ...
Celebrated biographer, Jeffrey Meyers recounts the contradictory, tormented life of Joseph Conrad.
When young Powell fails to find an officer's berth after gaining his certificate, he 'didn't think himself good enough for anybody's kinship' (p. 8). This is the ironic prelude to his meeting with his namesake and the unexpected ...
Joseph Conrad: Conrad's Polish heritage; Memories and impressions; Contemporary and early responses
This bibliography, the first volume in the new Conrad Studies series published in cooperation with The Joseph Conrad Society (UK), collects and annotates impressions and memories of Joseph Conrad by his family, friends, and acquaintances.
Up-to-date and extensive revision of Najder's much-acclaimed scholarly biography of Conrad, employing newly accessible sources.
Featuring new interpretations of all of Conrad’s major works, this is an original interpretation of Conrad’s life of writing.
Separates the facts of Conrad's life from his somewhat autobiographical fiction to provide a look at the author's childhood in Poland, life as a seaman, and years of poverty and...
J oseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre 1) that narrative theory, and especially some of its more recent developments, can help critics generate greater insight into the...
The popular yet complex work of Joseph Conrad has attracted much critical attention over the years, from the perspectives of postcolonial, modernist, cultural and gender studies. This guide to his...
Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Joseph Conrad and seeking not only a guide to his works, but also a way through the wealth of contextual and ...
In Modernism and the Machinery of Madness ( 2017 ) , for example , Andrew Gaedtke suggests that “ what [ Lewis's , Loy's , Kavan's , Waugh's , Beckett's ] novels and antinovels share is a radical uncertainty over ontological differences ...
The critical works in this collection analyze the complex narrative technique of heart of darkness while exploring its evocation of myth, philosophy, and politics, its attitudes to empire, its images of Africa, and its representations of ...
The back cover is an ad, lettered and decorated in black, for Booth Tarkington's The Guest of Quesnay. ... THE GUEST OF QUESNAY | [small leaf ornament] | [18-line blurb] | With frontispiece in color | illustrations by W. J. Duncan.
North American Review , 178 ( June 1904 ) , 843-52 . Reprinted by permission of the University of Northern Iowa . Michael Echeruo . Macmillan , Ltd. " Conrad's Nigger . " In his The Conditioned Imagination : From Shakespeare to Conrad .
Originally published in 1990, this is a comprehensive and annotated bibliography of the writings on Joseph Conrad and his works.