Commentary on the work of Polish-born English writer Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) in 16 essays presented to an international conference in Lublin, Poland, September 1991. Among the topics are discursive deception and the quest for meaning in Almayers's Folly , adapting Dark Country to film, and Conrad and the formation of legends. No index. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Joseph Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives. Volume 1: Conrad's Literary Career

History

Knowles, Owen

Krajka, Wiesław

Carabine, Keith

Europe

East European Monographs

The literary studies comprised in nineteenth volume of the "Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives" series, compare fact v. fiction/non-fiction, ideas, literary works, translations, literature and film. The works by Joseph Conrad analyzed in this volume comprise Almayer's Folly, "Heart of Darkness", "Amy Foster", Under Western Eyes, "Prince Roman", Conrad's non-fictional writings and his entire literary output. The variety of studies in reception of Conrad's works comprise a comprehensive factual survey of reception in one country and various types of creative reception: literary, translatory, artistic inspiration and influence, filmic. The reception sub-cluster shows various types of works of art in which Conradian patterns have been received: mostly literary prose, but also drama and theatricality, non-fictional prose, film.The volume presents not only various kinds of literary studies in the strict sense of the word but also those of the disciplines of humanities bordering on them, such as biography, studies in politics, history, axiology, filmic studies, translation studies and even remote ones (navigation studies). The great variety of issues of biography, politics, literature and reception considered here – as related to Conrad and to various Polish and East-Central European matters and contexts – hopefully comprises innovatory considerations by either taking up new issues or significantly reinterpreting old ones.

In the Realms of Biography, Literature, Politics and Reception: Polish and East-Central European Joseph Conrad (East European Monographs. / Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, 778)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The volume opens with an appreciation of Conrad's Polishness by Jerzy Buzek, The President of the European Parliament. Its first section provides new illuminations of Polishness in Conrad's personality and oeuvre: from the szlachta cultural heritage of his ancestors and Polish contextualizations of "Prince Roman" through some aspects of the writer's identity and references to Polish culture and autobiographical elements in his works to their Polish translations and reception. The Eastern-Western frame for these studies is provided by insights into some relations of his literary works to Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Turgenev) and their reception in Ukraine and Germany. The essays represent various methodological approaches to studies in biography, historical-cultural contextualizations of literature, fact-and-fiction relationships, history of ideas, literary reception (documented surveys, translative and creative reception) and comparative literary criticism.

From Szlachta Culture to the XXI Century, Between East and West: New Essays on Joseph Conrad's Polishness (East European Monographs, 22)

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