Nostromo : : centennial essays / / edited by Allan Simmons, J. H. Stape.

• Superior document: Conradian
• TeilnehmendeR: Simmons, Allan, 1955-; Stape, J. H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Conradian.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (127 pages)

In the century since its publication in 1904, Nostromo has taken its place among Conrad's masterpieces as a panoramic novel of revolution and a profound meditation on history and the effects of "material interests" on human destiny. The eight new essays brought together in this volume examine the novel from various perspectives: as an epic, as a study in colonialism and the problem of "homecoming," as an exploration of free will and determinism, as a textual artefact, and as a reflection upon earlier works of European literature by Coleridge, Pushkin, and others.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Contributors -- Terry COLLITS: Anti-Heroics and Epic Failures: The Case of Nostromo -- C. BROOK MILLER: Holroyd's Man: Tradition, Fetishization, and the United States in Nostromo -- Ludmilla VOITKOVSKA: Homecoming in Nostromo -- Amar ACHERAÏOU: "Action is consolatory": The Dialectics of Action and Thought in Nostromo -- Ludwig SCHNAUDER: Free Will and Determinism in Nostromo -- Xavier BRICE: Ford Madox Ford and the Composition of Nostromo -- Mario CURRELI: Leitmotifs from Coleridge and Wagner in Nostromo and Beyond -- Christopher CAIRNEY: Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and "The Horse of Stone" in Nostromo.