Author: L. Dryden
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230597076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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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
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781349410972
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: John A. McClure
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860916123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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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
ISBN: 1604138084
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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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
ISBN: 1351154826
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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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: L. Dryden
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137500123
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an overview of the literary scene in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period.
Author: John G. Peters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703485X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of the commentary written about the life and works of Joseph Conrad.
Author: Ruth Matilda Stauffer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Realism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Author: Alfred A. Knopf
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781659347111
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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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.
