Joseph Conrad And The Imperial Romance
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Author |
: L. Dryden |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 1999-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230597075 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230597076 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance by : L. Dryden
Linda Dryden places Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands , 'Karain', and Lord Jim in the context of the nineteenth-century imperial romance. Through the thwarted dreams and aspirations of his central characters she argues that Conrad exposes the empty promises of such fiction and challenges assumptions about the superiority of European imperialists and the imperial venture itself. Using illustrations from and references to many well-known novels of Empire, Dryden demonstrates how Conrad's Malay fiction alludes to the conventions and stereotypes of popular imperial fiction.
Author |
: Linda Dryden |
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Total Pages |
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Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1349410977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781349410972 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance by : Linda Dryden
Author |
: Peter Edgerly Firchow |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 399 |
Release |
: 2021-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813181455 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813181453 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Envisioning Africa by : Peter Edgerly Firchow
For one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its publication in 1899, more recently it has been repeatedly denounced as racist and imperialist. Peter Firchow counters these claims, and his carefully argued response allows the charges of Conrad's alleged bias to be evaluated as objectively as possible. He begins by contrasting the meanings of race, racism, and imperialism in Conrad's day to those of our own time. Firchow then argues that Heart of Darkness is a novel rather than a sociological treatise; only in relation to its aesthetic significance can real social and intellectual-historical meaning be established. Envisioning Africa responds in detail to negative interpretations of the novel by revealing what they distort, misconstrue, or fail to take into account. Firchow uses a framework of imagology to examine how national, ethnic, and racial images are portrayed in the text, differentiating the idea of a national stereotype from that of national character. He believes that what Conrad saw personally in Africa should not be confused with the Africa he describes in the novel; Heart of Darkness is instead an envisioning and a revisioning of Conrad's experiences in the medium of fiction.
Author |
: John A. McClure |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 1994-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 086091612X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780860916123 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Late Imperial Romance by : John A. McClure
As the US imperium lurches towards its economic twilight, comparisons with the fate of the British Empire have become increasingly commonplace.
Author |
: Harold Bloom |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781604138085 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1604138084 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Joseph Conrad by : Harold Bloom
Joseph Conrad's novels and short stories explore the nature of narrative, reality, and competing notions of truth. This new volume offers a new selection of contemporary critical commentary on the author of such classic works as ""Lord Jim"", ""Nostromo"", and ""Heart of Darkness"". This new edition also contains an introduction penned by literary scholar Harold Bloom, a bibliography, a chronology of the author's life, and an index for reference.
Author |
: Katherine Isobel Baxter |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2018-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351154826 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351154826 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance by : Katherine Isobel Baxter
In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance, the author argues that Conrad's engagement with the genre invigorated his work throughout his career. Exploring the ways in which Conrad borrows from, alludes to, and subverts the tropes of romance, the author suggests that Conrad's ambivalent relationship with popular forms like the adventure novel is revealed in the way he uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations and make visible ethical problems with Europe's colonial project. The author examines not only familiar novels like Lord Jim but also less-studied works such as Romance and The Rover, using Robert Miles's model of the 'philosophical romance' to show that for Conrad, romance is also philosophically engaged with issues of ideology. Her study enables a new appreciation of the ways in which Conrad continued to experiment, even in his later fiction, and of the ethical import of that aesthetic experimentation.
Author |
: John G. Peters |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2013-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107034853 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110703485X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception by : John G. Peters
This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad.
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Synopsis Heart of Darkness by :
Author |
: Joseph Conrad |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2019-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1659347114 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781659347111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad by : Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As he travels to Africa and then up the Congo, Marlow encounters widespread inefficiency and brutality in the Company's stations. The native inhabitants of the region have been forced into the Company's service, and they suffer terribly from overwork and ill treatment at the hands of the Company's agents. The cruelty and squalor of imperial enterprise contrasts sharply with the impassive and majestic jungle that surrounds the white man's settlements, making them appear to be tiny islands amidst a vast darkness.
Author |
: Robert L. Caserio |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 1006 |
Release |
: 2012-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316175101 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316175103 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge History of the English Novel by : Robert L. Caserio
The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.