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A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad
No full textIn this comprehensive analysis, Richard Ruppel, a former president of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, reveals the radical contingency of the politics in Conrad's major fiction. A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad is the first full-length analysis of Conrad's politics since the 1960s.Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897), Almayer's Folly (1895), and An Outcast of the Islands (1896) -- Lord Jim (1900) -- Heart of Darkness (1899-1900) -- Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) -- "An Anarchist" (1906), "The Informer" (1906), and The Secret Agent (1907) -- A Personal Record (1912) and Under Western Eyes (1911) -- Chance (1912) -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the AuthorIn this comprehensive analysis, Richard Ruppel, a former president of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, reveals the radical contingency of the politics in Conrad's major fiction. A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad is the first full-length analysis of Conrad's politics since the 1960s.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Joseph Conrad: a symbolic study
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1982
Configurations of imperialism and their displacements in the novels of Joseph Conrad.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines certain configurations of imperialism
and their displacements in the novels of Joseph Conrad
beginning from the premise that imperialism is rationalised
through a dualistic model of self/"other" and functions as
a hierarchy of domination/subordination. In chapters one
and two it argues that both Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
configure this model of imperialism as a split between
Europe/not-Europe. The third and fourth chapters consider
displacements of this model: onto a split within Europe and
an act of "internal" imperialism in Under Western Eyes and
onto unequal gender relations in the public and private
spheres in Chance.
Each chapter provides a reading of the selected novel
in relation to one or more contemporary (or near
contemporary) primary source and analyses these texts using
various strands of cultural theory. Chapter one, on Heart
of Darkness, investigates the historical background to
British imperialism by focusing on the textual production
of history in a variety of written forms which comprise the
diary, travel writing, government report, fiction. It
considers how versions of (imperial) history/knowledge are
constructed through the writing up of experience. In
chapter two, on Lord Jim, the hero figure is analysed as a
product of the imperial ideology and the protagonist's
failure is explored through the application of evolutionary
theory.
Chapters three and four, on Under Western Eyes and
Chance, investigate displacements of the imperial model:
the failure of an "enlightened" Western Europe to challenge
Russian imperialism in Poland forms the basis for reading
Under Western Eyes with Rousseau's writings and a
nineteenth-century history of the French Revolution. Chance
presents a further displacement of this model in its
relocation of imperialist imperatives in the sexual/gender
inequalities practised in the "mother" country
Inside the Darkness: The Theme of the Other in the Works by Joseph Conrad and J.M. Coetzee
No full textreservedIl presente elaborato si propone di analizzare il tema dell'«altro» nelle opere di Joseph Conrad e J.M. Coetzee, in particolare in "Cuore di tenebra" e "Aspettando i barbari". Partendo dalla tradizione della critica conradiana e postcoloniale e dalla lettura che Coetzee dà di Conrad, si intende approfondire le declinazioni del tema nei testi esaminati, soffermandosi specificamente sui motivi di wilderness, Storia, identità e alterità
Readings on Joseph Conrad
No full textA collection of essays that offer critical analysis and opinion on the writings of British novelist Joseph Conrad. Includes biographical information about the author, a chronology, and a bibliography
An exploration of the outsider's role in selected works by Joseph Conrad, Malcolm Lowry, V.S. Naipaul.
No full textPhDThis thesis explores ways in which the outsider questions rather than confirms
dominant cultural values whilst avoiding the crudity of overt politicisation. I argue
that the outsider's preference for an observer's stance is not so much an act which
denies responsibility to the world of his day, but rather a means of reassessing its
priorities.
In Section One, I discuss Conrad's role as an outsider in the age of Empires. I
demonstrate the ways in which Conrad employs narrators, frequently using strategies
of irony which can be and have been read in very different ways. I argue that Conrad
uses irony as a tool for condemnation rather than condonement of imperialist practice,
if not its ideology.
In Section Two, I discuss Lowry as an emigre from England (so contrasting
him with Conrad, the immigrant from Europe), and examine his dissenting voice
which opposes bourgeois prejudice against the working class, a totalising ideology
like Fascism, and a Western rationalism which sees too rigid a distinction between
sanity and madness. I demonstrate how Lowry as an outsider reacts to the age of
twentieth century World Wars.
In Section Three, I discuss Naipaul's role as an outsider in the age of
decolonisation, when bogus liberals and false redeemers fail to rebuild the newly
independent post-colonial states. As in Conrad's case, I show how a failure to read
Naipaul's ironic tone of voice has given rise to radically divergent views as to what he
is about. I also link Conrad and Naipaul through their cultural negotiation between the
'centre' and its peripheries.
By looking at these three writers in chronological order and offering a
comparative perspective on their work, I highlight the outsider's disturbing, yet
illuminating role within a historical context. I also draw attention to creative tensions
between artistic concerns and a serious political purpose. I assess the outsider as
observer and man of conscience rather than as a` mere onlooker. I conclude that the
outsider also fulfils a social obligation by promoting critical awareness on the reader's
side by means of his defamiliarising perspective
Colonialism in the fictional works of Joseph Conrad
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1981
Joseph Conrad Club certificate
No full textPhotograph of certificate from Marquette University's Joseph Conrad Club issued to Ignacy Jan Paderewski dated February 14, 1928.[Joseph Conrad Club Member Certificate]Grayscal
Conradian intellectual feast in Lublin
Get PDFThe Sixth
International Joseph Conrad Conference was held at
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, on 20-24 June
2016 under the Honorary Patronage of The European
Parliament and its President Mr. Martin Schul
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