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The first international conference ever held in Africa on the works
of author Joseph Conrad took place in 1998, to mark the centenary
of the publication of heart of darkness. This book draws its title
from Conrad's short story, `An Outpost of Progress' which
represented the responses of a European to colonial settler
assumptions about progress and backwardness, in the light of his
first-hand experience of Europeans in Africa at the end of the
nineteenth century. The 13 essays in this collection engage
directly with the ways in which Conrad's fiction explores and
problematises the notion of `progress', not only at the time when
he was writing but now, more than a century later. Although the
relationship between modernist and postcolonial literature has been
theorised by critics in Britain, Europe and America since the late
1980s, for the first time, this book brings these debates to
Africa.
Consistently praised for its readability and scholarship, Studying
the Novel is the ideal undergraduate companion to the study of the
novel and shorter fiction. Revised throughout to reflect the
profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the writing,
reading, and analysis of fiction, the eighth edition includes a new
chapter on popular fiction that covers children's fiction, horror
and the gothic, science fiction, the detective story, the comic
novel, and the graphic novel. The chapter on World Literature has
been expanded to include sections on fiction and apartheid, and the
fiction of disability, and information on electronic resources has
been thoroughly updated. Providing a complete guide to the study of
prose fiction in one reader-friendly volume, the book covers: - The
history and diversity of the novel, from early ancestors to new
electronic forms - The novel, the novella, and the short story -
Realism, modernism, and postmodernism - Analysing fiction:
narrators, character, structure, theme, and dialogue - Popular
fiction - Critical approaches to studying the novel - Practical
guidance on textual analysis, the choice and use of criticism,
electronic resources, and essay writing - Film and TV adaptations,
and reading novels in translation - World literature Comprehensive
cross-referencing allows readers to locate information quickly.
Technical terms and concepts such as 'perspective and voice',
symbol and image, Free Indirect Discourse, and many others are all
explained with the help of examples from a wide range of fictional
works. A Glossary provides additional explanations of terms and
concepts the student is likely to encounter, and each chapter
concludes with a set of study questions.
"Studying Literature: The Essential Companion" is a unique guide
for English undergraduates. It combines practical advice on study
skills with key information on literary theories and theorists,
offering invaluable support throughout any English degree. Key
Features:
- A study skills guide combined with an overview of literary
theories makes for a one-stop reference that can be used throughout
your English degree.
- The study skills section prepares you for your course with
advice on using the library for essay writing, and for your exams
with tips on revision and preparation.
- The digital resource section provides information on how to use
Google Books and sites such as Facebook, as well as the pros and
cons of using Wikipedia.
- Understanding literary theory is essential to all English
degrees and this section outlines the main theories in a clear and
comprehensive way.
- Literary theorists are profiled to ensure that you have a
comprehensive grounding in the subject.
Now in its seventh edition, Studying the Novel is an authoritative
introduction to the study of the novel at undergraduate level.
Updated throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and
digital resources on the contemporary study of literature, the book
also now includes a wider range of international examples to
reflect the growing field of world literature. Providing a complete
guide to studying the novel in one easy-to-read volume, the book
covers: * The form of the novel * The history of the novel, from
its earliest days to new electronic forms * Realism, modernism and
postmodernism * Analysing fiction: narrative, character, structure,
theme and dialogue * Critical approaches to studying the novel *
Practical guidance on critical reading, secondary criticism,
electronic resources and essay writing * Versions and adaptations
Studying the Novel also includes a number of features to help
readers navigate the book and find key information quickly,
including chapter summaries throughout, a comprehensive glossary of
terms and an historical timeline on the development of the novel,
while annotated guides to further reading and discussion questions
help students master the topics covered.
'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and
gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never
felt before or since.' link title to catalogue entry](exact
date?)Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and
experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad
returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first
command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed,
the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is
convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a
previous captain. This is indeed a work full of 'sudden passions',
in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence
can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older
Captain Giles, is prepared to 'stand up to his bad luck, to his
mistakes, to his conscience'. A subtle and penetrating analysis of
the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of
masculinity and desire in a subtext that counterpoints the tale's
seemingly conventional surface. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
This volume offers scholars the first authoritative text of two
works produced collaboratively by two of the most important modern
British novelists. Long hard to obtain and frequently neglected by
critics, each can now be appreciated both in its own right and as
part of the two authors' individual oeuvres. This scholarly edition
situates both works in the context of the writers' meeting and
ongoing collaboration, providing illuminating literary and
historical references and detailing the works' composition history
and reception in the UK and America. As well as establishing
definitive texts of both works and of the authors' prefaces written
for the 1924 republication of The Nature of a Crime, this edition
also includes Ford's own 1924 account of his collaboration with
Conrad on The Inheritors, as well as the text of Ford's 'The Old
Story', a hitherto unpublished early draft of the basic plot of The
Nature of a Crime.
Awarded third place for The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad
Studies 2009 The book presents a sustained critique of the
interlinked (and contradictory) views that the fiction of Joseph
Conrad is largely innocent of any interest in or concern with
sexuality and the erotic, and that when Conrad does attempt to
depict sexual desire or erotic excitement then this results in bad
writing. Jeremy Hawthorn argues for a revision of the view that
Conrad lacks understanding of and interest in sexuality. He argues
that the comprehensiveness of Conrad's vision does not exclude a
concern with the sexual and the erotic, and that this concern is
not with the sexual and the erotic as separate spheres of human
life, but as elements dialectically related to those matters public
and political that have always been recognized as central to
Conrad's fictional achievement. The book will open Conrad's fiction
to readings enriched by the insights of critics and theorists
associated with Gender Studies and Post-colonialism.
Consistently praised for its readability and scholarship, Studying
the Novel is the ideal undergraduate companion to the study of the
novel and shorter fiction. Revised throughout to reflect the
profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the writing,
reading, and analysis of fiction, the eighth edition includes a new
chapter on popular fiction that covers children's fiction, horror
and the gothic, science fiction, the detective story, the comic
novel, and the graphic novel. The chapter on World Literature has
been expanded to include sections on fiction and apartheid, and the
fiction of disability, and information on electronic resources has
been thoroughly updated. Providing a complete guide to the study of
prose fiction in one reader-friendly volume, the book covers: - The
history and diversity of the novel, from early ancestors to new
electronic forms - The novel, the novella, and the short story -
Realism, modernism, and postmodernism - Analysing fiction:
narrators, character, structure, theme, and dialogue - Popular
fiction - Critical approaches to studying the novel - Practical
guidance on textual analysis, the choice and use of criticism,
electronic resources, and essay writing - Film and TV adaptations,
and reading novels in translation - World literature Comprehensive
cross-referencing allows readers to locate information quickly.
Technical terms and concepts such as 'perspective and voice',
symbol and image, Free Indirect Discourse, and many others are all
explained with the help of examples from a wide range of fictional
works. A Glossary provides additional explanations of terms and
concepts the student is likely to encounter, and each chapter
concludes with a set of study questions.
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Under Western Eyes (Hardcover, New)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by Roger Osborne, Paul Eggert; Introduction by Keith Carabine; As told to Jeremy Hawthorn
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Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and
revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western
Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological
torment of its Russian protagonist, a university student who, in
betraying another, has betrayed himself. Based upon a comparison of
the existing manuscript and other materials, this scholarly and
first extensively annotated edition of Joseph Conrad's great novel
Under Western Eyes differs from all previous printings by more
accurately reflecting Conrad's writing process. The reading text is
supported by new scholarly materials that are the result of fifteen
years of investigation: essays on the textual and biographical
history of the novel, extensive notes, appendices and maps, as well
as a full listing of the thousands of textual variants in the early
forms of the novel, including the 18,000 words that Conrad himself
deleted.
This revised and expanded edition includes over 70 new terms and
usages from this volatile and fast-changing field. A number of new
entries come from the increasingly influential area of gender
politics including queer theory and masculinity studies.;New terms
in this edition include: camp reading, closet criticism,
deghettoization, femaling, faghag/fagstag character, lavender
language, literary cross-dressing, literary outing, sexual
code-switching, and transgender. In addition, many existing entries
have been revised and the guide to further reading has been
updated.
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