The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad

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J. H. Stape
Cambridge University Press, 27 de juny 1996 - 258 pàgines
The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad offers a wide-ranging introduction to the fiction of Joseph Conrad, one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Leading Conrad scholars give an account of Conrad's life, provide detailed readings of his major works, and discuss his narrative techniques, his complex relationship with cultural developments of his time, his influence on later writers and artists, and recent developments in Conrad criticism. The volume, which is aimed at students and the general reader, also contains a chronology and guide to further reading.
 

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The short fiction
25
Heart of Darkness
45
Lord Jim
63
Nostromo
81
The Secret Agent
100
The late novels
140
Conradian narrative
160
Conrad and imperialism
179
Conrad and Modernism
203
Conrads influence
223
Further reading
242
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J. H. Stape is Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London and has taught at universities in England, Canada, France and the Far East. Author of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (2007), he has edited several of Conrad's texts and is co-editor of Conrad's collected letters (Volumes 7 and 9). He has also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf.

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