Nostromo
Centennial Essays
Published on 1. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-90-420-1914-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1914-0 (9789042019140)
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Content
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 ACHERAIOU: "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
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 ACHERAIOU: "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