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Heart of Darkness (Paperback, New edition)
Joseph Conrad; Introduction by Gene M. Moore; Notes by Gene M. Moore; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van
Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's
shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror
which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations.
Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in
the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing
effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European
and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in
some individuals. The other two stories in this book - Youth and
The End of the Tether - concern the sea and those who sail upon it,
a genre in which Conrad reigns supreme.
The signing of the Gdansk Agreements in August 1980 signaled the
birth of the Solidarity independent trae union movement. The
sixteen months that followed until the December 1981 declaration of
martial law remain one of the most fascinating chapter in the
history of communist states. But the events of August 1980 did not
materialize from thin air. The groundwork for Solidarity was
prepared five years before when a group of dissident intellectuals
gathered to boldly proclaim their solidarity with persecuted
workers at Random and Ursus. This group called itself the Komitet
Obrony Robotnikow (KOR) or the Worker's Defense
Committee. What was KOR? What were the social and political
circumstances that lead to its formation? And how did it presage a
movement that would come to symbolize the hopes of a whole
generation of Poles? The answers to these questions lie in the rare
insights provided by one of Poland's most respected historians, Jan
Jozef Lipski, who was also a found and active member of KOR. His
book, translated from the Polish, is a meticulously detailed,
insider's account of KOR from its formation in 1976 to its
dissolution of 1981 when it was subsumed by the more powerful
movement of mass, organized protest, Solidarity. The history of KOR
is painted on the broad canvass of Polish society, in a manner
which sheds light on the roles of other actors--workers, peasants,
government officials, the Catholic Church, the Soviet Union--who
also had a hand in shaping events during this period. KOR: A
History of the Workers' Defense Committee in Poland is a work of
first-rate importance unlike any other published in the West. It
provides a deep insight into the origins of events in Poland, and
will also inform those intersted in the process of liberation
elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Although written with a historian's
attention to detail and objectivity, it is a riveting work of
sustained dramatic tension. For Lipski is a dissident who writes
about Poland from Poland and the history he writes about is till in
the making. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1985.Â
The signing of the Gdansk Agreements in August 1980 signaled the
birth of the Solidarity independent trae union movement. The
sixteen months that followed until the December 1981 declaration of
martial law remain one of the most fascinating chapter in the
history of communist states. But the events of August 1980 did not
materialize from thin air. The groundwork for Solidarity was
prepared five years before when a group of dissident intellectuals
gathered to boldly proclaim their solidarity with persecuted
workers at Random and Ursus. This group called itself the Komitet
Obrony Robotnikow (KOR) or the Worker's Defense
Committee. What was KOR? What were the social and political
circumstances that lead to its formation? And how did it presage a
movement that would come to symbolize the hopes of a whole
generation of Poles? The answers to these questions lie in the rare
insights provided by one of Poland's most respected historians, Jan
Jozef Lipski, who was also a found and active member of KOR. His
book, translated from the Polish, is a meticulously detailed,
insider's account of KOR from its formation in 1976 to its
dissolution of 1981 when it was subsumed by the more powerful
movement of mass, organized protest, Solidarity. The history of KOR
is painted on the broad canvass of Polish society, in a manner
which sheds light on the roles of other actors--workers, peasants,
government officials, the Catholic Church, the Soviet Union--who
also had a hand in shaping events during this period. KOR: A
History of the Workers' Defense Committee in Poland is a work of
first-rate importance unlike any other published in the West. It
provides a deep insight into the origins of events in Poland, and
will also inform those intersted in the process of liberation
elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Although written with a historian's
attention to detail and objectivity, it is a riveting work of
sustained dramatic tension. For Lipski is a dissident who writes
about Poland from Poland and the history he writes about is till in
the making. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1985.Â
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Suspense (Hardcover)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by Gene M. Moore
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R3,959
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Published posthumously in 1925, Suspense is set in Genoa in early
1815. This edition of Conrad's last novel, established through
modern textual scholarship, presents the text in a form more
authoritative than any so far printed. The introduction situates
the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and
contemporary reception. The explanatory notes explain literary and
historical references, identify real-life places and indicate
Conrad's main research materials. A glossary of foreign words and
phrases enriches the explanatory matter, as do four illustrations
and a map. A notebook of Conrad's research for the novel and
deleted drafts are published here for the first time. The essay on
the text and apparatus lay out the history of the work's
composition and publication and detail interventions in the text by
Richard Curle, who, as Conrad's de facto literary executor, saw the
novel into print, along with typists, compositors and editors.
This book offers the first comprehensive, international survey of
more than eighty films and videos based on the life and work of
Joseph Conrad. Essays by leading film and literary scholars examine
the films, both in the context of film history and technology, and
in terms of the theoretical and practical problems facing directors
- including Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola
and Andrzej Wajda - who have attempted to put Conrad on film.
Conrad was the first major English author to adapt his work for the
screen, and the story of his unpublished 'film-play' is told in an
important chapter. The challenges of finding visual analogues for
Conrad's narrative irony and filmic equivalents for his narrators
are also examined. The volume is well illustrated and includes a
detailed filmography and film bibliography, making it a landmark
study of Conrad films and film adaptations in general.
This casebook assembles historical and theoretical materials relevant to a deeper understanding of the origins and reception of Joseph Conrad's best-knowen and most controversial work, with texts by Conrad himself, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Max Beerbohm, and distinguished scholars such as Zdzislaw Najder and Ian Watt.
The very successful Oxford Reader's Companion series, described recently in the TLS as 'scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous', is now available in paperback. 'Lively and thorough' says the Library Journal of the Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad. Bringing together all of the best scholarship around on this compelling and complex figure in English literature, this handy paperback edition of thisCompanion will prove invaluable to students of 19th-century Victorian fiction.
Since the first film version of Joseph Conrad's Victory appeared on the silent screen in 1919, more than eighty film and video versions of his life and works have been made throughout the world. In a series of essays by leading film and literary scholars Conrad on Film surveys the history and theory of these adaptations, and examines the challenges faced by major directors such as Hitchcock, Welles, Coppola and Wajda in putting Conrad on film. This landmark study of Conrad films, and film adaptations in general, is well illustrated and includes a detailed filmography and film bibliography.
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