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Joseph Conrad : between literary techniques and their messages

Title
Joseph Conrad : between literary techniques and their messages / 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, 2009.

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Additional Authors
Krajka, Wiesław.
Description
vii, 287 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
  • Conrad, Eastern and Western perspectives ; v. 18
  • East European monographs ; no. 713
Uniform Title
  • Conrad, Eastern and Western perspectives ; v. 18.
  • East European monographs ; no. 713.
Subject
  • Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 > Literary style > Congresses
  • Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 > Technique > Congresses
  • Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
Note
  • Contains essays from the Fourth International Joseph Conrad Conference, entitled "Conrad's Polish-Ukrainian Footprints," organized by the Centre for Conrad Studies of the English Dept. of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, and held at Lublin and Kazimierz Dolny, June 19-23, 2006.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction / Wiesław Krajka -- Conrad and Englishness / Hunt Hawkins -- A sense of belonging : Joseph Conrad and otherness / Peter Vernon -- "You are extraordinary, you others" : breakdowns in communication in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim / Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech -- "In the light of the final incident" : rereading Typhoon / Keith Carabine -- Politics and prophylactics : The secret agent and Under western eye / Thomas Jackson Rice -- Irony and modern entropy in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent / Olga Binczyk -- The steamer and the raft : Charlie Marlow and Huck Finn / Manfred Malzahn -- Heart of Blackwood's : the millennial number of Maga / Sebastian D.G. Knowles -- Sublimely gifted but destined to fall : a comparative study of Conrad's Kurtz and Milton's Satan as the archetype of evil genius / Jarosław Giza -- Above the banks of darkness : Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and Søren Kierkegaard's existentialism / Ewa Bobrowska -- "Tossing about in the darkness" : ambivalence in The nigger of the Narcissus / Wojciech Kozak -- Son et Lumière : audio-visual Enlightenment at the heart of darkness / Susan Bhatt -- The chronotope of darkness in Conrad's work / Josiane Paccaud-Huguet.
ISBN
  • 9780880336512
  • 088033651X
LCCN
2009939026
OCLC
  • ocn320798535
  • SCSB-14574450
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library