[PDF] Conrads Prefaces eBook

Author : Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Professor) Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 38,24 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 : Cedric Watts
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,64 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 : Ross K. Tangedal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030851516

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Building on insights from the fields of textual criticism, bibliography, narratology, authorship studies, and book history, The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century examines the role that prefaces played in the development of professional authorship in America. Many of the prefaces written by American writers in the twentieth century catalogue the shifting landscape of a more self-consciously professionalized trade, one fraught with tension and compromise, and influenced by evolving reading publics. With analyses of Willa Cather, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Penn Warren, and Toni Morrison, Ross K. Tangedal argues that writers used prefaces as a means of expanding and complicating authority over their work and, ultimately, as a way to write about their careers. Tangedal’s approach offers a new way of examining American writers in the evolving literary marketplace of the twentieth century.

Author : Richard Ambrosini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521403498

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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.

Author : David J. Supino
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2022-08-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1802071105

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David J. Supino traces in unprecedented detail the lineaments of Joseph Conrad’s authorial career and the fortunes (and misfortunes) of his publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. This work is a model of the integrative scholarly method, combining close bibliographical scrutiny of particular textual artifacts with archival recovery of book-historical information in as much detail as the surviving documents allow. The book is essential reading not only for students of Conrad but also for all those who wish to understand the publishing history of this era.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 6801 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000519139

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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is widely considered one the great modern writers in English literature. This 21-volume set contains titles, originally published between 1976 and 1990 as well as a biography from 1957 written by one of his closest friends. The first 18 books are a set of concordances and indexes to Conrad’s printed works, which were part of a project directed by Todd K. Bender at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and are among the first attempts to use the power of computers to enhance our reading environment and assist in lexicography, scholarly editing, and literary analysis. The set also contains a meticulously compiled bibliography of writings on Joseph Conrad, as well as an original and powerful analysis of his major work.