Leading Conradian scholar Daniel R. Schwarz assembles his work
from over the past two decades into one crucial volume, providing a
significant reexamination of a seminal figure who continues to be a
major focus in the twenty-first century. Schwarz touches on
virtually all of Joseph Conrad's work including his masterworks and
the later, relatively neglected fiction.
In his introduction and in the persuasive and insightful essays
that follow, Schwarz explores how the study of Conrad has changed
and why Conrad is such a focus of interest in terms of gender,
postcolonial, and cultural studies. He also demonstrates how Conrad
helps define the modernist cultural tradition.
Exploring such essential works as "Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim,
Nostromo, " and "The Secret Sharer," Schwarz addresses issues
raised by recent theory, discussing the ways in which contemporary
readers, including, of course, himself, have come to read Conrad
differently. He does so without abandoning crucial Conradian themes
such as the disjunction between interior and articulated motives
and the discrepancies between dimly acknowledged needs, obsessions,
and compulsions and actual behavior.
Schwarz also touches on the extent to which Conrad's
conservative desires for a few simple moral and political ideas
were often at odds with his profound skepticism. A powerful close
reader of Conrad's complex texts, Schwarz stresses how from their
opening paragraphs Conrad's works establish a grammar of
psychological, political, and moral cause and effect.
"Rereading Conrad" sheds new light on an author who has spoken
to readers for over a century. Schwarz's essays take account of
recent developments in theory and cultural studies, including
postcolonial, feminist, gay, and ecological perspectives, and show
how reading Conrad has changed in the face of the theoretical
explosion that has occurred over the past two decades. Because for
over three decades Schwarz has been an important figure in defining
how we read Conrad and in studying modernism, including how we
respond to the relationship between modern literature and modern
art, scholars, teachers, and students will take great pleasure in
this new collection of his work.
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