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Joseph Conrad by William Kotzwinkle.
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Biography EssayJoseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to ...
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The Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was concerned with men under stress, deprived of the ordinary supports of civilized life and forced to confront the mystery of human individu...
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Writing in his The Great Tradition, the respected critic F. R. Leavis noted that Joseph Conrad "is among the greatest novelists in the language--in any language." Indeed, language is at the very heart...
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Joseph Conrad 's reputation as a literary figure of major proportions rests entirely on his fiction. In relation to this large canon his dramatic works are incidental, derivative, and slight in volume...
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Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perpl...
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Joseph Conrad's reputation as a major modern writer rests almost exclusively on his novels and short fiction. But even if his five volumes of occasional writings only infrequently achieve the high dis...
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The short fiction of Joseph Conrad is central to his literary achievement. Conrad wrote forty-three works of fiction, of which thirty-one are short, ranging from stories of a few pages to novellas of ...
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While working on a carefully guarded film project in 1982, Steven Spielberg invited the versatile writer William Kotzwinkle to Hollywood. Spielberg had read and enjoyed Kotzwinkle's vivid evocation of...
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In the following excerpt, Gurko explores some of Joseph Conrad's writings in the context of his exile from Poland.
The tragedy of Poland was not only geographic, but psychological. It was bad e...
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In the following essay, McLauchlan urges a reassessment of “The Planter of Malata,” perceiving the story to be more complex and successful than critics believe.
Conrad himself called &#x...
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In the following essay, Kerr elucidates the themes of age and life transition in three of Conrad's stories.
The topos of the three ages of mankind provides a recurring subject in classical pain...
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In the following essay, Kingsbury asserts that Conrad's story “The Tale” explores the uncertainties and moral contradictions of war.
In “Autocracy and War” Joseph Co...
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In the following essay, Carabine examines the relationship between form and idea in “The Informer.”
In January, 1908, in response to Algernon Methuen's request for “a gener...
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In the following essay, Billy provides an overview of the major thematic concerns and critical reception of Conrad's short stories.
Although Conrad's critical reputation rests primarily ...
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In the following essay, Kingsbury investigates the role of self-restraint in “The Return.”
Alvan Hervey, protagonist of Conrad's 1897 story “The Return,” tells his e...
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In the following essay, Lutz contends that “Falk” illustrates Conrad's belief that under the competitive, ruthless capitalistic system, bourgeois class conventions are illusions a...
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In the following essay, Martinière explores how the spatial organization of ships affects individuality and community in “The Secret Sharer,” The Shadow-Line, and The Nigger of th...
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In the following essay, D'Elia explores the relationship between love and war in “The Tale.”
After Napoleon, a century later, England was threatened by another Great War. However,...
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In the following essay, Kramer discusses Conrad's story “The Return” as a work of social satire.
In “The Return” Joseph Conrad attempted to portray a social context ...
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In the following essay, Stape identifies the unnamed city in “The End of the Tether” as Singapore and determines the influence of the city on Conrad's story.
While unnamed in ...
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In the following essay, Bonney argues that Conrad's story “The Return” is “a quality work of art.”
There is nothing behind the curtain other than that which is in fr...
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In the following essay, Johnson examines the representation of race in “An Outpost of Progress.”
Recent currents in critical inquiry have tended to liberate literary works from the limit...
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In the following essay, Levine considers Joseph Conrad's fiction as a form of scientific discourse that subverts Victorian realism and Darwinian gradualism.
The word "discourse" i...
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In the following essay, Johnson studies the parallels between the Grail legend and Joseph Conrad's novel, Chance.
Joseph Conrad's novel, Chance, is divided into two parts, the first enti...
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Joseph Conrad
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Critical Essay by Leo Gurko
