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Conrad's century : the past and future splendour

Title
Conrad's century : the past and future splendour / edited by Laura L. Davis.
Publication
Boulder : Social Science Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
Davis, Laura L.
Description
ix, 274 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Conrad, Eastern and Western perspectives ; v. 7
Uniform Title
Conrad, Eastern and Western perspectives ; v. 7.
Subject
  • Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Psychological fiction, English > History and criticism
  • Adventure stories, English > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Preface / Laura L. Davis -- Fidelity and Art: Joseph Conrad's Cultural Heritage and Literary Program / Zdzislaw Najder -- Almayer's Folly, Tadeusz Bobrowski, and the Polish Debate about Materialism / Addison Bross -- An Unrestful Hotel: Memories of Krakow and Marseilles in Conrad's Critique of His Time / G. W. Stephen Brodsky -- More Influence of Polish on Conrad's Style: Pragmatic vs. Grammatical Word Order / Mary Morzinski -- Verdi in Berau / Robert Hampson -- Joseph Conrad and the Novel of Adventure and Romance: Almayer's Folly / Linda Dryden -- Streetwalking, Underground London, and the Urban Vision of The Secret Agent / David Pike -- Conrad the Englishman: The Case of Chance / Jacques Berthoud -- "Undefaced Image": Autobiography and Vision in A Personal Record / Noel Peacock -- Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim: Narratives from Within and Beyond the Sheltering Pale / Wendy Perkins -- "The Worker in Prose": Conrad's Anti-Theoretical Theory of Art / Debra Romanick --
  • Torches, Blindfolds, and the Light of the Feminine in Conrad / Lissa Schneider -- Intersecting Texts: Conrad's "The Duel" and Ridley Scott's The Duellists / Wallace Watson -- Filming Conrad's Darkness, or A Roeg's Heart of Darkness / Anthony Forthergill -- The Conrad Legacy: Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory / Dwight Purdy.
ISBN
0880339802
LCCN
98061692
OCLC
41492348
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries