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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"This collection is particularly impressive for shedding new light on its subject while also serving as the finest single introductory volume on Conrad presently available. This volume will become required reading for Conrad scholars; it is certainly the first place I would send students new to Conrad's fiction. (From English Liturature in Transiton 1880-1920 by Brian W Shaffer)
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Leading Conrad scholars provide an account of Conrad's life and detailed readings of his major works. They discuss his narrative techniques, complex relationship with cultural developments of his time, influence on later writers and artists, and recent developments in Conrad criticism.
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This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Paperback)
The series "Cambridge Companions" is somewhat uneven. Some titles are excellent, and others are inaccesible, tedious and really not "Companions" at all. This "Companion", however, to Joseph Conrad is probably one of the best in the series.Beginning with a short biography of Conrad's life, there follow chapters on the short fiction, and several on most of the important of Conrad's works, such as "Heart of Darkness", "Lord Jim", "Nostromo" and "The Secret Agent". These are followed by sections on his late novels, Conradian narrative, his influence, and others. All of the Chapters are written in closed essay form by leading Conrad scholars, are easy to read, and well documented with footnotes. The final chapter includes a fairly comprehensive bibliography that wil be most helpful for students and scholars alike. It will provide a good starting point for further research. If you are interested in Joseph Conrad, beyond reading his novels and short stories, then this book will be very helpful. I recommend it highly.
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TRAVELLING WITH CAPTAIN CONRAD,
By Bartolome Leal (jleal@conama.cl) (Santiago,Chile) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Hardcover)
Joseph Conrad is not only a Great Master of English literature, but also a man who wandered all over the world, by sea and land, producing for our delight a treasure of short stories as intense as novels, as well as a dozen novels as engaging as fairy tales. For some readers he is above all a writer of "sea stories", for others a creator of fabulous adventures; for many, an intuitive connoisseur of the human soul who gave birth to unforgettable characters. But there is more: Joseph Conrad inhabits his books, he is a friend who shows us a path, gently spelling out about a period in human history. He talks to the intelligence and the emotions. The bunch of essays of this wonderful companion, by the Cambridge fellows, gives us precious hints for travelling with Captain Conrad through the labyrinths and waves of the physical and virtual planet in which chance has placed us to live and die.
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Conrad's earliest sense of himself, as a six-year-old child in 1863, was typically multiple, as 'Pole, Catholic, Gentleman' (Baines, Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography, p. 14). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
frame narrator, moral discovery, homo duplex, main narrator, irreconcilable antagonisms, late fiction, secret sharer, serial version, major fiction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, New York, Under Western Eyes, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Almayer's Folly, Henry James, The Shadow-Line, The Rover, The Arrow, Cunninghame Graham, Edward Garnett, Harvard University Press, Ford Madox Ford, Cedric Watts, Critical Biography, The Mirror, Conrad's Western World, George Eliot, Latin America, Penguin Books, The Critical Heritage, Zdzislaw Najder, Ian Watt New!
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Conrad's earliest sense of himself, as a six-year-old child in 1863, was typically multiple, as 'Pole, Catholic, Gentleman' (Baines, Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography, p. 14). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
frame narrator, moral discovery, homo duplex, main narrator, irreconcilable antagonisms, late fiction, secret sharer, serial version, major fiction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, New York, Under Western Eyes, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Almayer's Folly, Henry James, The Shadow-Line, The Rover, The Arrow, Cunninghame Graham, Edward Garnett, Harvard University Press, Ford Madox Ford, Cedric Watts, Critical Biography, The Mirror, Conrad's Western World, George Eliot, Latin America, Penguin Books, The Critical Heritage, Zdzislaw Najder, Ian Watt New!
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- Lord Jim (Oxford Bookworms) by Joseph Conrad on 65 pages
- Under Western Eyes (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Joseph Conrad on 46 pages
- Conrad in the Nineteenth Century by Ian Watt on 26 pages
- The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad on 15 pages
- Lord Jim (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad on 8 pages
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- Joseph Conrad (Routledge Guides to Literature) by Tim Middleton on 6 pages
- Joseph Conrad: The Short Fiction (The Conradian 28, II) by Allan H. Simmons on page 71, and page 110
- An Outcast of the Islands (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Modernism, Narrative and Humanism by Paul Sheehan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Conrad and Impressionism by John G. Peters in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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