Author: Joseph ConradPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Works of Joseph Conrad in 20 (i.e. 22) Volumes: 'Twixt land and sea tales
Author: Joseph ConradThe Works of Joseph Conrad: 'Twixt land and sea tales
Author: Joseph ConradComplete Works
Author: Joseph ConradThe Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald CarterPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Tales of Hearsay
Author: Joseph ConradPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775419797
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Although English was not his native tongue, Polish-born Joseph Conrad honed his language skills over his lifetime and would eventually become enshrined as one of the masters of English literature. As a sailor, he spent his free time during months-long voyages at sea writing stories, letters, and later, novels such as The Heart of Darkness. However, he regarded short stories as his favorite form, and the literary gems collected in Tales of Hearsay confirm that he was a remarkably skilled writer of short fiction.
Doctor Faustus - Second Edition
Author: Christopher MarlowePublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770481184
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Doctor Faustus is a classic; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative? Michael Keefer’s early work helped to establish the current consensus that the 1604 text was censored and revised; the Keefer edition, praised for its lucid introduction and scholarship, was the first to restore two displaced scenes to their correct place. Most competing editions presume that the 1604 text was printed from authorial manuscript, and that the 1616 text is of little substantive value. But in 2006 Keefer’s fresh analysis of the evidence showed that the 1604 quarto’s Marlovian scenes were printed from a corrupted manuscript, and that the 1616 quarto (though indeed censored and revised) preserves some readings earlier than those of the 1604 text. This edition has been updated and revised. Keefer’s critical introduction reconstructs the ideological contexts that shaped and deformed the play, and the text is accompanied by textual and explanatory notes and excerpts from sources.
The Nigger of the ''Narcissus''
Author: Joseph ConradPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1633550877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The story of one voyage of the sailing-ship Narcissus from Bombay to London--a story dealing with calms and with storms, with mutiny on the high seas, with bravery and with cowardice, with tumultuous life, and with death, the releaser from toil. (Published in the U.S. as "The Children of the Sea.")
B.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell LtdPublisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
Book Description
Secret Sharers: Melville, Conrad and Narratives of the Real
Author: Paweł JędrzejkoPublisher: M-Studio
ISBN: 8362023562
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The present book explores a variety of fundamental questions that all of us secretly share. Its twenty-one chapters, written by some of the world’s leading Melville and Conrad scholars, indicate possible directions of comparativist insight into the continuity and transformations of western existentialist thought between the 19th and 20th centuries. The existential philosophy of participation—so mistrustful of analytical categories—is epitomized by the lives and oeuvres of Melville and Conrad. Born in the immediacy of experience, this philosophy finds its expression in uncertain tropes and faith-based actions; rather than muffle the horror vacui with words, it plunges head first into liminality, where logos dissolves into a “positive nothing.” Unlike analytical philosophers, both Melville and Conrad refrain from talking about reality: they expose those who would listen to a first-hand experience of participation in an interpretive act. Employing literary tropes to denude the essence of the human condition, they allow their readers to transgress the limitations of language. Mistrustful of language, they accept the necessity of discourse which, to make sense, must be actively reshaped, endlessly questioned, and constantly revised. And if uncertainty is the only certainty available to us, our lowly human condition also necessitates compassion: an existential cure against the liquid, capricious reality we are afforded.
My Life as an Author
Author: Martin Farquhar TupperPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description