Essays on ConradCambridge University Press, 27 de jul. 2000 - 214 pàgines Ian Watt (1917-99) has long been acknowledged as one of the finest of post-War literary critics. The Rise of the Novel (1957) is still the landmark account of the way in which realist fiction developed in the eighteenth century and Watt's work on Conrad has been enormously influential. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century (1979) was to have been followed by a volume addressing Conrad's later work, but the material for this long-awaited second volume remains in essay form. It is these essays, as Frank Kermode points out in his foreword, which form the nucleus of Essays on Conrad. Watt's own worldview, as well as his insight into Conrad's work, was shaped by his experiences as a prisoner of war on the River Kwai. His personal, and painfully moving, account of these experiences forms part of his famous essay 'The Bridge over the River Kwai as Myth' which completes this essential collection. |
Continguts
Joseph Conrad alienation and commitment | 1 |
Almayers Folly introduction | 20 |
Conrad criticism and The Nigger of the Narcissus | 64 |
Conrads Heart of Darkness and the critics | 85 |
Comedy and humour in Typhoon | 97 |
The political and social background of The Secret Agent | 112 |
The Secret Sharer introduction | 127 |
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actually alienation Allistoun Almayer's Folly anarchist Arrow of Gold attitude Author's Note Borneo Boulle Boulle's bridge called captain certainly Chance chapter character command Conrad wrote coolies course crew critics death Donkin doubt early Edward Garnett English essay example F. R. Leavis fact feel fiction final Ford Ford Madox Ford French Guerard Heart of Darkness Henry James human Ibid idea individual James's Japanese Jean-Aubry Joseph Conrad Jukes kind Kurtz later Leggatt Letters from Conrad Lingard literary live London Lord Jim MacWhirr manuscript Marguerite Poradowska Marlow moral movie Mudrick myth Najder Narcissus narrative narrator narrator's Nigger Nostromo novel novelist passage perhaps Personal Record political present prisoners probably protagonist reader Richard Curle River Kwai romantic Russian Secret Agent Secret Sharer seems sense Shadow-Line ship solidarity story surely symbolic tell theme things thought Typhoon Unwin Virginia Woolf Wait whole writing written
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Conrad in the Twenty-first Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives Carola M. Kaplan,Peter Lancelot Mallios,Andrea White Previsualització limitada - 2005 |
Conrad in the Twenty-first Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives Carola M. Kaplan,Peter Lancelot Mallios,Andrea White Previsualització limitada - 2005 |