[PDF] A Preface To Conrad eBook

Author : Cedric Watts
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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A Preface to Conrad begins with a concise and authoritative analysis of Conrad's biographical background. It then moves on to an original and provocative survey of his work, offering detailed commentaries on texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Almayer's Folly and Nostromo.

Author : Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Professor) Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317874277

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Widely recommended, this guide to Conrad offers a vivid and incisive account of his life and literary career, and gives detailed attention to the contexts, themes, problems and paradoxes of his works.

Author : John G. Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139457926

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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 : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023151154X

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Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and Africa, projects political dimensions in his work that mirror a colonialist preoccupation with "civilizing" native peoples. Said then suggests that this dimension should be considered when reading all of Western literature. First published in 1966, Said's critique of the Western self's struggle with modernity signaled the beginnings of his groundbreaking work, Orientalism, and remains a cornerstone of postcolonial studies today.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0191582743

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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 : Ian Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521783873

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A landmark collection of Ian Watt's essays on Joseph Conrad.

Author : Cedric Watts
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN : 1847601359

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A biographical chapter relates The Secret Agent to Conrad's career. Next, the work's process of composition is discussed, and differences between the serial, the book version and the stage version are explained. An analysis of the plot gives particular attention to its ironic strategies and to the character of the narrator. Various themes and contexts are explored: conceptions of time and topography; anarchistic and Fenian politics; anti-Semitism; evolution, Lombroso and criminology. Literary influences and analogues are illustrated: Dickens, Zola, Ibsen, terrorist fiction. The characters are considered from various viewpoints. A critical survey summarises the work's reception since its first publication. The bibliography provides a guide to further reading.