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Form and Philosophy in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad
It is generally accepted that Conrad's fiction is something quite unique in English literature. An attempt is made to analyse the elements that give it this distinctive flavour. Emphasis is laid on a "confessional" aspect that is always disguised, but never absent from his major works, and this is …
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Joseph Conrad and the ideology of fiction : a study of four works
… priority of politics in the interpretation of Conrad's fiction. It does so by establishing a critical dialogue with, and around, Fredric Jameson's Marxist classic, The Political Unconscious (1981). Jameson's proposition that Conrad's fiction is to be understood as a """"Political …
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FOR A METHODOLOGY OF TRANSLATION CRITISIM: THE ITALIAN TRANSLATIONS OF THE SECRET SHARER BY JOSEPH CONRAD
… different translations: the selected text is Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Sharer, which has twelve Italian versions published from 1940s to 2007. The thesis is structured as follows. Chapter 2 reviews and critically examines approaches to translation criticism and translation quality assessment, …
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The centrifugal discourse of myth : women and the 'saving illusion' in selected works of Joseph Conrad
… is to demonstrate that the women characters in Joseph Conrad's works function in the narratives to present a 'saving illusion' which is in contrast to masculine existential despair. The women characters are characterised by 'being' not 'becoming'. They are also frequently associated with that …
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"""Condemned to Consequences"": A study of tragic process in three works by Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene"
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Da representação do espaço ao diálogo com a alteridade : uma leitura de Joseph Conrad e Ferreira de Castro
… “An Outpost of Progress” e Heart of Darkness, de Joseph Conrad, e A Selva e Instinto Supremo, de Ferreira de Castr,o pareceu-nos possível reflectir sobre eventuais analogias não só na representação do espaço como das estratégias de diálogo com a alteridade. Nesta perspectiva, a existência do …
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Narratief en trauma : 'n ondersoek na die gebruik van ‘‘trauma’’ as 'n literêre kategorie in die analise van tekste
… will also be paid to the Heart of Darkness (by Joseph Conrad) intertext that appears in both. To expand the analysis, a brief overview of trauma in three other literary texts will also be included. These include Kennis van die Aand (1973) by Andre P Brink, Die Onsigbares (2003) by EKM Didio and …
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Ford Madox Ford and the Jamesian Influence
… many attractive figures in his career, and while Joseph Conrad, with whom he sometimes collaborated, was his closest literary friend and advisor, it was Henry James who exerted the most pervasive influence on Ford as a novelist. Though James never responded very warmly to the younger writer, he …
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Joseph Conrad's Confrontation With Racism
… popular myths of superiority and inferiority, Joseph Conrad revealed his maturing consciousness in regard to people of color. One can chart his growing consciousness by analyzing his literary works since much of what he wrote is to some extent autobiographical and since the process of writing …
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Thomas Hardy's Concept of Woman as One of the Destructive Forces of the Universe
… to criticism of Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad whose positions have been established." The tenor of this remark by Irving Howe resounds in the works of many Hardy critics who constantly refer to the harmful and misleading preconceptions with which Hardy's work is met; Roy Morrell …
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Laughing in the Void: Comic Elements in Joseph Conrad's Tragic Vision
Joseph Conrad has traditionally been viewed as a writer with a "tragic vision," and as a result few critics have studied his use of humor. This partially results from Conrad's "double vision" that mixes tragic and comic perspectives within the same works. Conrad acts as a precursor of a …
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Conrad's Theory of "Justification"
… the framework of the fictional creation.</p> <p>Joseph Conrad goes beyond Adler’s statement in his theory of "justification." He aims to present his characters so that their actions and thoughts seem inevitable within the narrative. An action is "justified” when it is the only thing that could …
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For All Peoples and All Nations: Anglophone Literature and the Imaginative Work of International Law (1884-2017)
… instances where Anglophone novelists—including Joseph Conrad, Bryher, Vladimir Nabokov, Chinua Achebe, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—work through the promises and problems of international jurisprudence. More than a mere reflection of international law’s evolving theory and practice, the …
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Bureaucracy and its Liberal Imaginings: Victorian Aesthetics of the State
… Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, that we can find any insight into our own perceptions, perplexities, perturbations about the underlying tensions that organize (or disorganize) liberal society as a whole. Which is to say, bureaucracy, while on the one hand an …
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The Theme of Discipline and Control in Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness"
… March 18, 1917, seven years before his death, Joseph Conrad wrote to Sir Sidney Colvin:</p> <p> Perhaps you won’t find it presumption if, after 22 years of work, I may say that I have not been very well understood, I have been called a writer of the sea, of the tropics, a descriptive writer, a …
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Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature
… and Edward Bulwer Lytton to Jack London and Joseph Conrad. Understanding these literary responses of the past can help illuminate our current responses to an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved.
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