Research Catalog

Title

In the realms of biography, literature, politics and reception : Polish and East-Central European Joseph Conrad / edited with an introduction by Wiesław Krajka.

Author

International Joseph Conrad Conference (4th : 2006 : Lublin, Poland, and Kazimierz Dolny, Poland)

Publication

Boulder ; East European Monographs ; Lublin : Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press ; New York : distributed by Columbia University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

Krajka, Wiesław.

Description

vii, 482 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Summary

"This volume is comprised of the second set of select essays whilch were presented in their early versions at a conference entitled 'Conrad's Polish-Ukrainian Footprints,' the Fourth International Joseph Conrad Conference organized by the Centre for Conrad Studies of the English Department Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Lublin, Poland. The conference, held at Lublin and Kazimierz Dolny, 19-23 June 2006 ..."--Introduction, p. 1.

Series Statement

• Conrad: Eastern and Western perspectives ; v. 19
• East European monographs ; no. 778

Uniform Title

• Conrad, Eastern and Western perspectives ; v. 19.
• East European monographs ; no. 778.

Alternative Title

Polish and East-Central European Joseph Conrad

Subject

• Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 > Literary style > Congresses
• Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 > Influence > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "This volume is comprised of the second set of select essays which were presented in their early versions at a conference entitled "Conrad's Polish-Ukrainian Footprints", the Fourth International Joseph Conrad Conference"--P. 1.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

(Cont.) II: Russia. On Conrad's "Autocracy and war" and the Dogger Bank Incident / Kenji Tanaka. Conrad, Spasowicz and the Russian writers : Turgenev and Dostoevsky / Brygida Pudełko. "Under Western eyes" and "The brothers Karamazov" / Monika Majewska. An empty word : Conrad's and Turgenev's critique of language / Katarzyna Sokołowska -- III: Central Europe. Joseph Conrad's Slavic soul and feelings in Pavel Velikovsky's novel "Posledný kôń Pompejí / Halina Janaszek-Ivaničkova. Joseph Conrad's Czech footprints / Zdeněk Beran. In search of German Conrads : responses to Conrad in contemporary German language literature / Elmar Schenkel

ISBN

• 9780880336819
• 0880336811

OCLC

• 693812275
• SCSB-12717264

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library