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Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance

Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance

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. | Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance

GBP 38.99
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Conrad Autobiographical Remembering and the Making of Narrative Identity

Conrad Autobiographical Remembering and the Making of Narrative Identity

Drawing on recent studies on life writing memory the narrative turn and psychology Conrad Autobiographical Remembering and the Making of Narrative Identity is the first major work that extensively explores the dynamic interplay between Conrad’s autobiographical remembering and storytelling in relation to his identity construction within a historical and cultural context. This unique perspective makes the book particularly attractive for students teachers and researchers of Conrad. Contrary to the prevalent achievement-and-decline paradigm that implies a decline in quality of Conrad’s works in his later period this volume contends that Conrad’s later works continue to engage with the complex questions of memory identity and culture demonstrating a sustained commitment to exploring the intricacies of the human experiences. Essential reading for Conrad enthusiasts but also for those who seek to explore how memory studies in literature intersect with psychology philosophy and cultural studies.

GBP 130.00
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Shadowtime History and Representation in Hardy Conrad and George Eliot

Shadowtime History and Representation in Hardy Conrad and George Eliot

In Shadowtime Jim Reilly explores how the great Victorian and Edwardian works of literature can be read in the light of current radical historiography which foresees the extinction not just of art but of history itself. This is an outstanding combination of original readings and critical survey. Shadowtime is ideal material for anyone studying nineteenth-century realism modernism and the history of aesthetics. | Shadowtime History and Representation in Hardy Conrad and George Eliot

GBP 175.00
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The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

Originally published in 1981 this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th Century and which became so important to modernism. The author argues that the decline of realism entailed the growth of ‘symptomatic’ or ‘subtextual’ reading which tended to treat fiction as compromised autobiography. This kind of reading left the author dangerously isolated and exposed in the midst of a newly sophisticated public. Within this general cultural perspective the book traces the private anxieties that led George Meredith Joseph Conrad and Henry James to conceal themselves within their complex and resistant fictions. It discusses opacity in the texts themselves – embarrassment and shame in Meredith; ‘engimas’ in Conrad; and the fear of vulgarity and knowledge in Henry James. | The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

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Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction Living in Translation

Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction Living in Translation

Joseph Conrad is famous for being an unusual strange and even eccentric English writer. However despite his difference English criticism has primarily interpreted his fiction from the perspective of the English culture. In turn Polish criticism has portrayed Conrad as a Pole who happened to write in English. Considering Conrad’s transcultural background neither exclusively English nor an exclusively Polish writer this volume investigates the essential features of his expatriate writing as a form distinctly different from any writing done within a single culture. Conrad's unique contribution to English literature and sensibility stems from his ability to incorporate the complexity of the exilic condition without discussing it explicitly. Furthermore this book establishes Conrad's expatriation archetypes and examines them as they manifest themselves not only in a realistic but more importantly in a symbolic mode. Those archetypal features demonstrate themselves through Conrad’s thematic choices narrative structure and critical discourse that reflect his complex relationship with both the parent and the adopted reader. While the existence of these patterns in Conrad's fiction are not entirely obvious this book aims to illuminate Conrad’s contributions to the current critical debate concerning the place of the author in his/her own narrative. | Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction Living in Translation

GBP 130.00
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A Concordance to Conrad's Victory

A Concordance to Conrad's Victory

Originally published in 1979 The Concordance to Conrad’s Victory is intended to provide access to certain information on the text of the novel in a manner convenient to Conrad scholars. To this end the authors have included an alphabetical list of word frequencies and a type/token ratio table as well as a list of word frequencies in rank order. In the concordance itself each specific word in the text is listed in alphabetical order along with an identifier number and a context for the word. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes concordances and related data for all of Conrad’s works. | A Concordance to Conrad's Victory

GBP 44.99
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Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)

Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)

The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study first published 1992 John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott Balzac Dickens George Eliot Flaubert James Ford and Conrad Rignall argues for an understanding of realism through the recurrent figure of the flneur. The flneur is the strolling spectator whose problematic vision both of and in the novel makes him the representative figure of the realist text. A significant contribution to the field this title will be of particular view to students of realism literary theory and comparative literature. | Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)

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Routledge Revivals 19th Century Literature Bundle

Routledge Revivals 19th Century Literature Bundle

This bundle brings together 29 prominent works examining and exploring areas of 19th literature. The collection includes volumes on Charles Dickens Elizabeth Gaskell The Brontës Tolstoy and Joseph Conrad as well as a critical look at key issues during this time including Darwinism orientalism 19th century Romanticism and scientific advancement during the period. The collection focuses on a variety of regions including Victorian England Russia and the US and explores the literary styles of the period from the provincial and comedic novel to new explorations of the psyche in the literature as well as the industrial technological and scientific advancements of the period. This comprehensive collection provides an essential and complete look at literature during the nineteenth century and will be a useful and fascinating collection for any students of literature and history in particular those studying the Victorian period. | Routledge Revivals 19th Century Literature Bundle

GBP 1900.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism

The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism

Though it might seem as modern as Samuel Beckett Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov translingual writing - texts by authors using more than one language or a language other than their primary one - has an ancient pedigree. The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism aims to provide a comprehensive overview of translingual literature in a wide variety of languages throughout the world from ancient to modern times. The volume includes sections on: translingual genres - with chapters on memoir poetry fiction drama and cinema ancient medieval and modern translingualism global perspectives - chapters overseeing European African and Asian languages Combining chapters from lead specialists in the field this volume will be of interest to scholars graduate students and advanced undergraduates interested in investigating the vibrant area of translingual literature. Attracting scholars from a variety of disciplines this interdisciplinary and pioneering Handbook will advance current scholarship of the permutations of languages among authors throughout time.

GBP 205.00
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Fiction & the Colonial Experience

Fiction & the Colonial Experience

British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the novelists of the first half of the 20th century. This study originally published in 1968 looks at five writers and their reaction to the Empire: Rudyard Kipling E. M. Forster Joseph Conrad Joyce Cary and Graham Greene. It shows how the romantic adventure stories of Kipling’s early days in which the indigenous population plays almost no part gave rise to the much more important novels of spiritual and moral conflict in which the stereotyped values of Empire are questioned. The decline of colonialism from its apogee in the 1880s within a relatively short period makes the novels discussed a compact group so that not only is the use of colonial material closely studied but its impact on the novelists themselves emerges clearly. This is an important study of a major literary theme linking modern literature and modern history at a vital point. | Fiction & the Colonial Experience

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The Art of Failure Conrad's Fiction

The Art of Failure Conrad's Fiction

Originally published in 1986 this is a powerful and original book. It offers textual interpretation of Conrad’s major work and articulates the subtlety and richness of his treatment of social-political institutions and of the forces that complicate and distort private and public life. Suresh Raval argues that the social-personal relations in Conrad’s fiction cannot be conceived apart from their existence in the political life of a community; but at the same time they cannot be accommodated institutionally. The author’s concern is with the problematic status of the self under various perspectives: experience and understanding (Heart of Darkness) an ethical ideal (Lord Jim) history (Nostromo) ideology (The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes) scepticism (Victory). What the self is remains ambiguous and elusive. Conrad’s fiction is concerned with exhibiting the failure of language but always as a result of an immense effort of language itself. As language undoes itself in the act of seeking utterance so Conrad’s fictional mode – romance – turns into the opposite of itself as it unfolds. Raval demonstrates that incompatible alternatives – intention and action thought and experience the individual and the social the logical and the contingent – are entangled with each other and how this entanglement works in the fiction. Raval’s exploration of Conrad’s scepticism shows why Conrad cannot be characterized as a political conservative or radical without distorting the complexity and seriousness of his reflection on society. For his scepticism is the product not just of intelligence but of intelligence conscious of its limitations and is thus able to make a devastating critique of the nihilism sometimes attributed to Conrad by critics. Only those who think that morality has to have a secure single foundation if it is to be real are pushed into regarding Conrad’s scepticism as a form of nihilism. Professor Raval’s important study brings philosophical and literary interests to bear on Conrad’s major fiction and illuminates those aspects of his art which have puzzled and fascinated his readers. It will be deservedly valued by those studying and teaching modern literature. | The Art of Failure Conrad's Fiction

GBP 29.99
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What is Colonialism?

What is Colonialism?

What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent work in cognitive science affective science and social psychology along with Marxism and related forms of analysis. Hogan begins with some fundamental conceptual distinctions such as the degree to which a group shares beliefs dispositions and skills versus the degree to which they share identification with a category. Building on these distinctions he defines colonialism in terms of political economic and cultural autonomy clarifying the nature of culture and autonomy particularly. He goes on to articulate an invaluable systematic account of the varieties of colonialism. The final chapters outline the motives of imperialists differentiating these from their ideological rationalizations and sketching the harms caused by colonialism. The book concludes by considering when or if one can achieve a genuinely postcolonial condition. Hogan illustrates these analyses by examining influential literary works—by European writers (such as Joseph Conrad) and by non-Europeans (such as Athol Fugard Kamala Markandaya and Wole Soyinka). This accessible and informative volume is the ideal resource for students and scholars interested in colonialism and empire.

GBP 34.99
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Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

In this pioneering study Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830 shaped the spatial imagination of Victorians with profound consequences for the novel of empire. Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire examines Presidential Addresses and reports of the Royal Geographical Society and demonstrates how geographical studies by explorers cartographers ethnologists medical topographers administrators and missionaries published by the RGS local geographical societies or the colonial state acquired relevance for Victorian fiction’s response to the British Empire. Through a series of illuminating readings of literary works by R. L. Stevenson Olive Schreiner Flora Annie Steel Winwood Reade Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling the study demonstrates how nineteenth-century fiction published between 1870 and 1901 reflected and interrogated geographical discourses of the time. The study makes the case for the significance of physical and human geography for literary studies and the unique historical and aesthetic insights gained through this approach. | Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

GBP 38.99
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Sociological Theories of Health and Illness

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness reviews the evolution of theory in medical sociology beginning with the field’s origins in medicine and extending to its present-day standing as a major sociological subdiscipline. Sociological theory has an especially important role in the practice of medical sociology because its theories distinguish the subdiscipline from virtually all other scientific fields engaged in the study of health and illness. The focus is on contemporary theory because it applies to contemporary conditions; however since theory in sociology is often grounded in historical precedents and classical foundations this material is likewise included as it relates to medical sociology today. This book focuses on the most commonly used sociological theories in the study of health and illness illustrating their utility in current examples of empirical research on a wide range of topics. The qualitative or quantitative research methods applicable to specific theories are also covered. Distinctions between macro and micro-level levels of analysis and the relevance of the agency-structure dichotomy inherent in all theories in sociology are discussed. Beginning with classical theory (Durkheim Weber and Marx) and the neglected founders (Gilman Martineau and DuBois) along with symbolic interaction (Mead Strauss) and labeling theory (Becker) and poststructuralism and postmodernism (Foucault) coverage is extended to contemporary medical sociology. Discussion of the stress process model (Pearlin) is followed by the social construction of gender and race and intersectionality theory (Collins) health lifestyle theory (Cockerham) life course theory (Elder) fundamental cause theory (Link and Phelan) and theories of the medical profession (Freidson) medicalization and biomedicalization (Conrad Clarke) and social capital (Bourdieu Putnam and Lin).

GBP 35.99
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The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse

The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse

The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One: Revelation and Apocalypse is the first volume fully annotated of a major previously unpublished two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905–1960). It was written between 1934 and 1940 after Neumann then a young philosopher and physician and freshly trained as a disciple of Jung fled Berlin to settle in Tel Aviv. He finished the second volume of this work at the end of World War II. Although he never published either volume he kept them the rest of his life. The challenge of Jewish survival frames Neumann’s work existentially. This survival he insists must be psychological and spiritual as much as physical. In Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse he argues that modern Jews must relearn what ancient Jews once understood but lost during the Babylonian Exile: that is the individual capacity to meet the sacred directly to receive revelation and to prophesy. Neumann interprets scriptural and intertestamental (apocalyptic) literature through the lens of Jung’s teaching and his reliance on the work of Jung is supplemented with references to Buber Rosenzweig and Auerbach. Including a foreword by Nancy Swift Furlotti and editorial introduction by Ann Conrad Lammers readers of this volume can hold for the first time the unpublished work of Neumann with useful annotations and insights throughout. These volumes anticipate Neumann’s later works including Depth Psychology and a New Ethic The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Great Mother. His signature contribution to analytical psychology the concept of the ego–Self axis arises indirectly in Volume One folded into Neumann’s theme of the tension between earth and YHWH. This unique work will appeal to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists in training and in practice historians of psychology Jewish scholars biblical historians teachers of comparative religion as well as academics and students. | The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse

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Marxism Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique Critical Engagements with Benita Parry

Marxism Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique Critical Engagements with Benita Parry

Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies Marxist literary criticism and world literature in the contemporary moment seeking to re-imagine the field and alongside it new possibilities for left critique. It is the first volume of essays focusing on the field-defining intellectual legacy of the literary scholar Benita Parry. As a leading critic of the post-structuralist turn within postcolonial studies Parry has not only brought Marxism and postcolonial theory into a productive albeit tense dialogue but has reinvigorated the field by bringing critical questions of resistance and struggle to bear on aesthetic forms. The book’s aim is two-fold: first to evaluate Parry’s formative influence within postcolonial studies and its interface with Marxist literary criticism and second to explore new terrains of scholarship opened up by Parry’s work. It provides a critical overview of Parry’s key interventions such as her contributions to colonial discourse theory; her debate with Spivak on subaltern consciousness and representation; her critique of post-apartheid reconciliation and neoliberalism in South Africa; her materialist critique of writers such as Kipling Conrad and Salih; her work on liberation theory resistance and radical agency; as well as more recent work on the aesthetics of peripheral modernity. The volume contains cutting-edge work on peripheral aesthetics the world-literary system critiques of global capitalism and capitalist modernity and the resurgence of Marxism communism and liberation theory by a range of established and new scholars who represent a dissident and new school of thought within postcolonial studies more generally. It concludes with the first-ever detailed interview with Benita Parry about her activism political commitments and her life and work as a scholar. | Marxism Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique Critical Engagements with Benita Parry

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Portraits from Memory And Other Essays

Portraits from Memory And Other Essays

‘I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence. ’ – Bertrand Russell Portraits from Memory Portraits from Memory is one of Bertrand Russell’s most self-reflective and engaging books. Whilst not intended as an autobiography it is a vivid recollection of some of his celebrated contemporaries such as George Bernard Shaw Sidney and Beatrice Webb and D. H. Lawrence. Russell provides some arresting and sometimes amusing insights into writers with whom he corresponded. He was fascinated by Joseph Conrad with whom he formed a strong emotional bond writing that his Heart of Darkness was not just a story but an expression of Conrad’s ‘philosophy of life’. There are also some typically pithy Russellian observations; H. G. Wells ‘derived his importance from quantity rather than quality’ whilst after a brief and fraught friendship Russell thought D. H. Lawrence ‘had no real wish to make the world better but only to indulge in eloquent soliloquy about how bad it was’. This engaging book also includes some of Russell’s customary razor-sharp essays on a rich array of subjects from his ardent pacifism liberal politics and morality to the ethics of education the skills of good writing and how he came to philosophy as a young man. These include ‘A Plea for Clear Thinking’ ‘A Philosophy for Our Time’ and ‘How I Write’. Portraits from Memory is Russell at his best and will enthrall those new to Russell as well as those already well-acquainted with his work. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the Russell scholar Nicholas Griffin editor of The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell. | Portraits from Memory And Other Essays

GBP 16.99
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The Correspondence of H.G. Wells Volume 2 1904–1918

The Correspondence of H.G. Wells Volume 2 1904–1918

This collection of H. G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2 000 letters and while a few are business – to publishers agents and secretaries – the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and A. J. Balfour to persons such as ‘Mark Benney’ who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many female friends and lovers among them Rebecca West Eileen Power Gertrude Stein Marie Stopes Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy Richardson. For example a letter from Moura Budberg with whom Wells had a long-standing affair which announces that she is pregnant by him and about to have an abortion reveals how an advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed correspondence with the press particularly during the two World Wars and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love socialism birth control the Fabian Society and the nature of the curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included. Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small selection of about 40 letters to Wells where letters from him are not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester Joseph Conrad C. G. Jung Trotsky Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who attempted suicide in Wells's flat) and J. C. Smuts. The letters are arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878–1900; Volume 2 1901–1912; Volume 3 1913–1930; and Volume 4 1930–1946. H. G. Wells's works include The Time Machine (1895) The Invisible Man (1897) The War of the Worlds (1898) The History of Mr Polly (1910) and A Short History of the World (1922). | The Correspondence of H. G. Wells Volume 2 1904–1918

GBP 40.99
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