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Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts - Katherine Isobel Baxter - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts - Katherine Isobel Baxter - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Conrad''s fiction is characterized by an enduring recourse to the performing arts for metaphor, allegory, symbol, and subject matter; however, this aspect of Conrad''s non-dramatic works has only recently begun to come into its own among literary critics. In response to this seminal moment, Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts offers an exciting, interdisciplinary forum for one of the most interesting and nascent areas of Conrad studies. Adopting a variety of theoretical approaches, the contributors examine major and neglected works within the context of the performing arts: cultural performance in Conrad''s Malay fiction; Conrad''s use and parody of popular traditions such as melodrama, Grand-Guignol, and commedia dell''arte; Conrad''s engagement with the visual culture of early cinema; Conrad''s interest in the motifs of shadowgraphy (shadow plays); Conrad''s relationship to Shakespeare; and the enduring influence of opera on his work. Taken together, the essays provide, through solid scholarship and richly provocative speculation, new insight into Conrad''s oeuvre, and invite future dialogue in the burgeoning field of Conrad and the performing arts.

DKK 661.00
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The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad - Joseph Conrad - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad - Joseph Conrad - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Since the publication of the Cambridge edition of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, the numerous letters in the nine volumes, many of them published for the first time and many more taken from hard-to-find books and journals, have had a profound influence on writing about Conrad. This selection makes the highlights available in one volume. The letters have been re-edited with shorter footnotes and an emphasis on the latest scholarship. Letters originally written in French or Polish appear only in revised English translations. Among the topics that stand out are Conrad''s memories of growing up in Poland and Ukraine, his ideas about fiction, often expressed in precise but sympathetic comments on the work of his friends, the anxieties of war and revolution, his struggle to keep his integrity as a writer, and his lives as a sailor and a family man.

DKK 440.00
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Conrad in the Twenty-First Century - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Conrad in the Twenty-First Century - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Best known as the author of Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is one of the most widely taught writers in the English language. Conrad''s work has taken on a new importance in the dawning of the 21st century: in the wake of September 11 many cultural commentators returned to his novel The Secret Agent to discuss the roots of terrorism, and the overarching theme of colonialism in much of his work has positioned his writing as central to not only literature scholars, but also to postcolonial and cultural studies scholars and, more recently, to scholars interested in globalization. Reading Conrad Now is a collection of original essays by leading Conrad scholars that rereads Conrad in light of his representations of post-colonialism, of empire, imperialism, and of modernism and modernity-questions that are once again relevant today. The collection is framed by an introduction by J. Hillis Miller-one of the most important literary critics today-and a concluding extensive interview with Edward Said (one of his final interviews before his death on September 25, 2003)- the most prominent postcolonial critic-addressing his lifelong fascination with Conrad. Reading Conrad Now will be essential reading for anyone seeking a contemporary introduction to this great writer, and will be of great interest to scholars working with Conrad in a variety of fields including literary studies, cultural studies, ethnic and area studies, and postcolonial studies.

DKK 482.00
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Joseph Conrad and Postcritique - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad and Postcritique - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad''s central texts, including Heart of Darkness , The Secret Agent , Under Western Eyes , and Lord Jim . Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique ascribes positive value to the knowledge, affect, ethics, and politics that emerge from literature. The essays in this collection recognize the dark elements in Conrad''s fiction-deceit, vanity, avarice, lust, cynicism, and cruelty-yet they perceive hopefulness as well. Conrad''s skepticism unveils the dark heart of politics, and his critical heritage can feed our fear that humanity is incapable of improving. This Conrad is a well-known figure, but there is another, neglected Conrad that this book aims to bring to light, one who delves into the politics of hope as well as the politics of fear. Chapters 1 and 2 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

DKK 689.00
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Joseph Conrad - Andrew Michael Roberts - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad - Andrew Michael Roberts - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad is a key figure in modernist fiction, whose innovative work engages with many of the crucial philosophical, moral and political concerns of the twentieth century. This collection of major critical readings of his work is arranged according to the issues which each critic addresses, issues which are of crucial importance, and in many cases remain controversial, within contemporary literary theory and criticism. Following an opening section on the critical tradition, indicating how the study of Conrad''s work has been politicised since the 1970s, there are sections on ''Narrative, Textuality and Interpretation'', ''Imperialism'', ''Gender and Sexuality'', ''Class and Ideology'', and ''Modernity''. Within each section two or three critical excerpts offer contrasting and complementary accounts of the fiction, while the headnotes to each piece and the introduction place these excerpts within the wider critical debate, clarifying for the reader both the theoretical issues and the interpretation of Conrad''s fiction. A glossary of terms and a bibliography categorised by critical approach complete a volume which will provide an invaluable resource for students of Conrad and twentieth-century literature as well as other readers of Conrad''s work.

DKK 486.00
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Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance - Katherine Isobel Baxter - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance - Katherine Isobel Baxter - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad''s use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance, the author argues that Conrad''s engagement with the genre invigorated his work throughout his career. Exploring the ways in which Conrad borrows from, alludes to, and subverts the tropes of romance, the author suggests that Conrad''s ambivalent relationship with popular forms like the adventure novel is revealed in the way he uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations and make visible ethical problems with Europe''s colonial project. The author examines not only familiar novels like Lord Jim but also less-studied works such as Romance and The Rover, using Robert Miles''s model of the ''philosophical romance'' to show that for Conrad, romance is also philosophically engaged with issues of ideology. Her study enables a new appreciation of the ways in which Conrad continued to experiment, even in his later fiction, and of the ethical import of that aesthetic experimentation.

DKK 448.00
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Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today - Joyce Wexler - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today - Joyce Wexler - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores how the anarchist fiction of Joseph Conrad can help us understand terrorism today. Conrad undermines the popular view that terrorists are fanatics. He portrays anarchists and police as counterparts driven by the human desires for autonomy and affiliation, the need to control their own lives and to be part of a group. Postcritique encourages readers to consider the accuracy of such information, and research in Terrorism Studies confirms Conrad''s insights: his characters are more realistic and his political stance is more hopeful than critics have recognized.

DKK 519.00
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Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism - Mark A. Wollaeger - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism - Mark A. Wollaeger - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

"You want more scepticism at the very foundation of your work. Scepticism, the tonic of minds, the tonic of life, the agent of truth - the way of art and salvation." Joseph Conrad wrote these words to John Galsworthy in 1901, and this study argues that Conrad''s skepticism forms the basis of his most important works, participating in a tradition of philosophical skepticism that extends from Descartes to the present. Conrad''s epistemological and moral skepticism - expressed, forestalled, mitigated, and suppressed - provides the terms for the author''s rethinking of the peculiar relation between philosophy and literary form in Conrad''s writing and, more broadly, for reconsidering what it means to call any novel ''philosophical''. Among the issues freshly argued are Conrad''s thematics of coercion, isolation, and betrayal; the complicated relations among author, narrator, and character; and the logic of Conradian romance, comedy, and tragedy. The author also offers a new way of conceptualizing the shape of Conrad''s career, especially the ''decline'' evidenced in the later fiction. The uniqueness of Conrad''s multifarious literary and cultural inheritance makes it difficult to locate him securely in the dominant tradition of the British novel. A philosophical approach to Conrad, however, reveals links to other novelists - notably Hardy, Forster, and Woolf - all of whom share in the increasing philosophical burden of the modern novel by enacting the very philosophical issues that are discussed within their pages. Conrad''s interest as a skeptic is heightened by the degree to which he resists the insights proffered by his own skepticism. The first chapter introduces the idea of the Conradian ''shelter'', and the next two use Schopenhauer to show how the language of metaphysical speculation in Tales of Unrest and ''Heart of Darkness'' spills over into a religious impulse that resists the disintegrating effect of Conrad''s skepticism. The author then turns to Hume to model the authorial skepticism that in Lord Jim contests the continuing visionary strain of the earlier fiction and Descartes to analyze the ways in which Romantic vision is more stringently chastened by irony in Nostromo and The Secret Agent. The concluding chapter touches on several late novels before examining how competing models of political agency in Conrad''s last great fiction of skepticism, Under Western Eyes, situate it somewhere between ideology critique and a mystified account of the exigencies of individual consciousness.

DKK 758.00
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Sunjata - David Conrad - Bog - Hackett Publishing Co, Inc - Plusbog.dk

Sunjata - David Conrad - Bog - Hackett Publishing Co, Inc - Plusbog.dk

A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liberates his people from Sumaworo Kante, the sorcerer king of Soso, and establishes the great medieval empire of Mali. David Conrad conveys the strong narrative thrust of the Sunjata epic in his presentation of substantial excerpts from his translation of a performance by Djanka Tassey Conde. Readers approaching the epic for the first time will appreciate the translation''s highly readable, poetic English as well as Conrad''s informative Introduction and notes. Scholars will find the familiar heroes and heroines taking on new dimensions, secondary characters gaining increased prominence, and previously unknown figures emerging from obscurity.

DKK 490.00
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Joseph Conrad - Yael (associate Professor Of English Levin - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad - Yael (associate Professor Of English Levin - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The book builds on current interventions in modernist scholarship in order to rethink Joseph Conrad''s contribution to literary history. It utilizes emerging critical modernisms, the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, and late modernist fiction, to stage an encounter between Conrad and a radically different literary tradition. It does so in order to uncover critical blind spots that have limited our appreciation of his poetics. The purpose of this investigation is threefold: first, to participate in recent critical attempts to correct a neglect of ontological preoccupations in Conrad''s writing and uncover the author''s exploration of a human subject beyond the Cartesian cogito. Second, to demonstrate the manner in which such an exploration is accompanied by the reconfiguration of the very building blocks of fiction: character, narration, focalization, language and plot have to be rethought to accommodate a subject who is no longer conceived of as autonomous and whole but is rendered permeable and interdependent. Third, to show how this redrawing of the literary imaginary communicates with the projects of late modernist writers such as Samuel Beckett, writers whose literary endeavours have long been held separate from Conrad''s. In the spirit of current re-examinations of modernism and critical endeavours to think it anew outside the commonplaces that once defined it, this study returns to Conrad''s art with an eye to twentieth-century shifts in the way we process, understand and evaluate information. Thematic, stylistic and philosophical instantiations of the slow are offered here as a gauge for this meaningful transformation.

DKK 769.00
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Identifying Hyperactive Children - Peter Conrad - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Identifying Hyperactive Children - Peter Conrad - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This is a new and expanded edition of a classic case-study in the medicalization of ADHD, originally published in 1976. The book centres on an empirical study of the process of identifying hyperactive children, providing a perceptive and accessible introduction to the concepts and issues involved. In this revised edition, Peter Conrad sets the original study in context, demonstrating the continuing relevance of his research. He highlights the issues at stake, outlining recent changes in our understanding of ADHD and reviewing recent sociological research. Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University, USA. He has written extensively in the area of medical sociology, publishing nine books and over eighty articles and chapters.

DKK 468.00
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Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad - Richard J. Ruppel - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad - Richard J. Ruppel - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book analyzes the representations of homosexuality in Conrad’s fiction, beginning with Conrad’s life and letters to show that Conrad himself was, at least imaginatively, bisexual. Conrad’s recurrent bouts of neurasthenia, his difficult courtships, late marriage, and frequent expressions of misogyny can all be attributed to the fact that Conrad was emotionally, temperamentally, and, perhaps, even erotically more comfortable with men than women. Subsequent chapters trace Conrad’s fictional representations of homosexuality. Through his analysis, Ruppel reveals that homoeroticism is endemic to the adventure genre and how Conrad’s bachelor-narrators interest in younger men is homoerotic. Conrad scholars and those interested in homosexuality and constructions of masculinity should all be interested in this work.

DKK 578.00
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Joseph Conrad - Tim Middleton - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad - Tim Middleton - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The popular yet complex work of Joseph Conrad has attracted much critical attention over the years, from the perspectives of postcolonial, modernist, cultural and gender studies. This guide to his compelling work presents: - - an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Conrad’s texts, from publication to the present - - - an introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Conrad’s life and work, situated in a broader critical history - - - cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism - - - suggestions for further reading. - Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Joseph Conrad and seeking not only a guide to his works, but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.

DKK 485.00
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