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Joseph Conrad's critical reception
\"Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Joseph Conrad's novels and short stories have consistently figured into - and helped to define - the dominant trends in literary criticism. This book is the first to provide a thorough yet accessible overview of Conrad scholarship and criticism spanning the entire history of Conrad studies, from the 1895 publication of his first book, Almayer's Folly, to the present. While tracing the general evolution of the commentary surrounding Conrad's work, John G. Peters's careful analysis also evaluates Conrad's impact on critical trends such as the belles lettres tradition, the New Criticism, psychoanalysis, structuralist and post-structuralist criticism, narratology, postcolonial studies, gender and women's studies, and ecocriticism. The breadth and scope of Peters's study make this text an essential resource for Conrad scholars and students of English literature and literary criticism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Conrad's Drama
Conrad's Drama: Contemporary Reviews and Observations collects both book reviews and performance reviews of Conrad's three plays: The Secret Agent, One Day More, and Laughing Anne. These reviews and observations show how Conrad's plays were received by his contemporaries. More than this, however, Conrad's Drama reveals the larger conversations surrounding his plays: the state of British drama in the early 20th century, the role the drama critic has in a play's reception, and the difficulty most fiction writers experience in trying to write for the stage. No other reference work exists for those studying Conrad's plays, and this volume should prove to be an indispensable reference work for those working on this topic. Conrad's Drama received an Honorable Mention in the Joseph Conrad Society of America's Adam Gillon Book Prize in Conrad Studies for books published 2018-2020.
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Joseph Conrad's Critical Reception
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Joseph Conrad's novels and short stories have consistently figured into - and helped to define - the dominant trends in literary criticism. This book is the first to provide a thorough yet accessible overview of Conrad scholarship and criticism spanning the entire history of Conrad studies, from the 1895 publication of his first book, Almayer's Folly, to the present. While tracing the general evolution of the commentary surrounding Conrad's work, John G. Peters's careful analysis also evaluates Conrad's impact on critical trends such as the belles lettres tradition, the New Criticism, psychoanalysis, structuralist and post-structuralist criticism, narratology, postcolonial studies, gender and women's studies, and ecocriticism. The breadth and scope of Peters's study make this text an essential resource for Conrad scholars and students of English literature and literary criticism.
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Reading Conrad
For half a century, J. Hillis Miller has been a premier figure in
English and comparative literature, influencing and leading the
direction of literary studies. What is less well-known is that he
has been equally influential in Conrad studies with his work on
nihilism, language, and narrative in Joseph Conrad's fiction.
Returning to Conrad at different stages of his long career-reading
and rereading him in light of new critical trends-Miller
continually discovered new aspects of the influential author's
fiction. This volume, edited by John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe,
charts Miller's shifting insights into Joseph Conrad's fiction and
also highlights the potential of Conrad studies to illuminate core
questions in studies of narrative theory, aesthetics, and history.
Reading Conrad by J. Hillis Miller demonstrates a
surprising cohesiveness across Miller's career as well as the
richness of Conrad's fiction, which affords varied opportunities
for critical approaches as different as phenomenology, new
criticism, deconstruction, narrative theory, and narrative ethics.
Miller's analyses emphasize literature's rhetorical and
performative power, ultimately suggesting that while narrative
fiction is an effect of a series of complex phenomena in society
and in the human psyche, as literary language it can also refer to
the external world indirectly and contribute to the formation of
history from within.
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Conrad and Impressionism
In this 2001 book, John Peters investigates the impact of Impressionism on Conrad and links this to his literary techniques as well as his philosophical and political views. Impressionism, Peters argues, enabled Conrad to encompass both surface and depth not only in visually perceived phenomena but also in his narratives and objects of consciousness, be they physical objects, human subjects, events or ideas. Though traditionally thought of as a sceptical writer, Peters claims that through Impressionism Conrad developed a coherent and mostly traditional view of ethical and political principles, a claim he supports through reference to a broad range of Conrad's texts. Conrad and Impressionism investigates the sources and implications of Conrad's impressionism in order to argue for a consistent link between his literary technique, philosophical presuppositions and socio-political views. The same core ideas concerning the nature of human experience run throughout his works.
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