By J. H. Stape

The Cambridge better half to Joseph Conrad bargains a wide-ranging creation to the fiction of Joseph Conrad, essentially the most influential novelists of the 20th century. prime Conrad students supply an account of Conrad's existence, offer targeted readings of his significant works, and talk about his narrative suggestions, his advanced courting with cultural advancements of his time, his impression on later writers and artists, and up to date advancements in Conrad feedback. the amount, that's geared toward scholars and the final reader, additionally features a chronology and consultant to additional analyzing.

Show description

Read Online or Download The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge Companions to Literature) PDF

Similar british & irish books

Levity of Design: Man and Modernity in the Poetry of J. H. Prynne

How can poetry embody morality via concentrating on metaphrasts? what's the relation among an allummette and the alpha rhythm? Why is it that money has changed into a metonym of goodness and good fortune? And specifically, is it nonetheless attainable to consider the human topic as a doable type in past due modernity?

The Well-Tun'd Word: Musical Interpretations of English Poetry, 1597-1651

The years 1957–1651 marked a interval of excessive fulfillment within the historical past of music. within the Well-Tun'd be aware Elise Bickford Jorgens stories altering musical conventions of English tune in terms of new styles in poetic flavor from the past due Elizabethan period during the Jacobean and Caroline years, basing her paintings at the premise that any musical surroundings of a poem is an interpretation of the poem itself.

Jane Austen's names : riddles, persons, places

In Jane Austen’s works, a reputation is rarely only a identify. in reality, the names Austen offers her characters and areas are as wealthy in sophisticated that means as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for instance, the house county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine isn't as silly as she turns out: in accordance with legend, crafty Wiltshire citizens stuck hiding contraband in a pond capitalized on a name for lack of understanding via claiming they have been digging up a “big cheese”—the moon’s mirrored image at the water’s floor.

Defoe and the Whig Novel: A Reading of the Major Fiction

His examine locations Defoe's significant fiction squarely within the rising Whig tradition of the early eighteenth century. It bargains an alternative choice to the view that Defoe is largely a author of felony or experience fiction and to the Marxist judgment that he extols individualism or derives his maximum suggestion from renowned print tradition.

Additional resources for The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Sample text

473). He also confessed to a sense of emotional release when he turned from the longer work to take up an idea for short fiction: Typhoon' would be 'a fresh start' after the 'nightmare' of finishing Lord Jim (Letters, II, pp. 289, 293), and writing The Secret Sharer' in the midst of Under Western Eyes gave him confidence (Letters, IV, p. 296). 12 Although the shorter works almost invariably turned out to be less 'easy' than he anticipated, Conrad's inclination to find a 'short turn' for his material was often strongest when he had just completed a novel, was in the latter stages of writing one, or was unable to make headway, as with The Rescue and Chance.

According to this view, argued most forcefully in Thomas C. Moser's study of 1957, Conrad's major works belong to the years 1897-1911, after which his writing suffers from a debilitating enervation and exhaustion, first undergoing a sharp decline through its creator's disabling involvement with the 'uncongenial subject' of love and sexually charged relations, and then suffering from a progressively simplified 'affirmation' that culminates in the exhausted weariness of the last novels. Much recent criticism has challenged this view, both by questioning the sometimes reductive psychoanalytic assumptions underpinning it and by pointing to ways in which Conrad's later fiction may demand altered critical perspectives.

The Life of Bertrand Russell. London: Cape and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975 Conrad, Jessie. Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him. London: Heinemann; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1926 Conrad, Joseph. 'The Crime of Partition'. Notes on Life and Letters. 1921. London: Dent, 1970, pp. 115-33 The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'. 1897. Ed. Jacques Berthoud. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984 22 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Conrad's life "Heart of Darkness* and Other Tales. Ed. Cedric Watts.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.45 of 5 – based on 42 votes