Critical approaches to Joseph Conrad / / edited by Agata Szczeszak-Brewer.
"Critical Approaches to Joseph Conrad is a collection of essays directed to both new and experienced readers of Conrad. The book takes into account recent developments in literary theory, including the prominence of ecocriticism, ecopostcolonial approaches, and gender studies. Editor Agata Szcz...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Columbia, South Carolina : : University of South Carolina Press,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Chronological list of works by Joseph Conrad
- Introduction / Agata Szczeszak-Brewer
- Part I: Conrad's contexts. Joseph Conrad: Historical and cultural contexts / Barry Morton; Conrad's critical reception / John G. Peters
- Part II: Critical approaches to heart of darkness. "The great demoralization of the land": Postcolonial ecology in heart of darkness / Greg Winston; The elephant in the text: Toward a post-humanist reading of Heart of darkness / William Atkinson; Conrad and Coppola: rendering empire visible / Jonathan Elmore; Reinventing the Congo through western eyes: Echoes of Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness in Michaela Wrong's In the footsteps of Mr Kurtz / Mawuli Adjei
- Part III: Critical approaches to other major texts. The imitable Joseph Conrad / Nisha Manocha; Maternal return: Lord Jim's spectral narrative / Carola M. Kaplan; The other side of the page in typhoon / Thomas Jackson Rice; Ideas have consequences: women in the compromised world of Nostromo / Ruth Nadelhalft; History in ruins: reading Nostromo / Camelia Raghinaru; A simple tale? The writing and rewriting of the secret agent / Andrew Glazzard; "The secret sharer": When the other is the self / Anna Krauthammer; Sensationalized stories of Russian revolutionary terrorism in Under western eyes / Jennifer Malia; Chance and betrayal in Under western eyes / Robert McParland.