Intimations of Joseph Conrad

A Century of Sightings and Citings of Conrad’s Presences in Print, Crafts, Media and Monuments

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvG.W. Stephen Brodsky,G. W. Stephen Brodsky

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Each sighting is described in its context—a couple of certain or likely sightings by Conrad, such as Molière and Matthew Arnold, and the rest sightings or ambient intimations of Conrad’s presence –fiction and social commentary in novels and film by significant authors who carry on his legacy, from contemporaries such as H.G.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-28
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031679179

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G.W. Stephen Brodsky, CD, BA (Queen’s U, Kingston; MA u of Victoria, PhD [DPhil Lit,]. U of York, UK), retired Special Lecturer in the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Royal Roads Military College, Canada, is a specialist in Renaissance Drama, Literature of War, and for the latter forty years more particularly Conrad Studies. He is author of (among other titles) Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army (1988); and preeminently, Joseph Conrad’s Polish Soul (2016). He has written extensively on Conrad in journals (The Conradian, Conradiana, Modern Fiction Studies), and has been an elected board trustee for the Joseph Conrad Society of America.

Introduction.- Chapter 1 imperialist colonialism and the received canon.- Chapter 2 contemporaries and others: sightings by and of Conrad.- Chapter 3 conrad and war.- Chapter 4 conrad’s postmodern influence and reception abroad.- Chapter 5 conrad in the spy novel, modern popular literature and film.- Chapter 6 monuments of words and wood in craft ashore and crafts at sea, in bronze, stone, places and performing arts.- Conclusion