The Cambridge Introduction To Joseph Conrad
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Author |
: John G. Peters |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 2006-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139457927 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139457926 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad by : John G. Peters
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 |
: J. H. Stape |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1996-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521484847 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521484848 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad by : J. H. Stape
Leading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.
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: John G. Peters |
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Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:879239625 |
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: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad by : John G. Peters
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Total Pages |
: 146 |
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: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0511334532 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780511334535 |
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: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad by :
The most comprehensive guide to Conrad's life, work, context and major themes.
Author |
: J. H. Stape |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2014-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316123508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316123502 |
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: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad by : J. H. Stape
Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad studies since the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996). The volume's thirteen chapters offer diverse perspectives on emergent areas of interest, including canon formation, postcolonialism, gender, critical reception and adaptation. Likewise, chapters on Conrad's autobiographical writings, Heart of Darkness and 'The Secret Sharer', consider recent trends in both literary and cultural studies. A chronology and an updated guide to further reading serve to provide essential orientation to a large and complex field. This volume is the ideal starting point for students new to Conrad's work as well as for scholars wishing to keep abreast of current issues.
Author |
: Joseph Conrad |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2008-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191582745 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191582743 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by : Joseph Conrad
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 |
: John G. Peters |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2013-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107245129 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107245125 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception by : John G. Peters
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.
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: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1139081031 |
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: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad by :
The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad offers a wide-ranging introduction to the fiction of Joseph Conrad, one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Through a series of essays by leading Conrad scholars aimed at both students and the general reader, the volume stimulates an informed appreciation of Conrad's work based on an understanding of his cultural and historical situations and fictional techniques. A chronology and overview of Conrad's life precede chapters that explore significant issues in his major writings, and deal in depth with individual works. These are followed by discussions of the special nature of Conrad's narrative techniques, his complex relationships with late-Victorian imperialism and with literary Modernism, and his influence on other writers and artists. Each essay provides guidance to further reading, and a concluding chapter surveys the body of Conrad criticism.
Author |
: Penny Gay |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 197 |
Release |
: 2008-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139469777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139469770 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies by : Penny Gay
Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.
Author |
: Peter Howarth |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2011-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139502320 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139502328 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry by : Peter Howarth
Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.