A Preface to Conrad
Second Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 20. October 2014
234 pages
978-1-317-87427-0 (ISBN)
Description
Widely recommended, this guide to Conrad offers a vivid and incisive account of his life and literary career, and gives detailed attention to the contexts, themes, problems and paradoxes of his works.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
2,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-87427-0 (9781317874270)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2000
2nd Edition
Longman
€66.90
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Person
Watts, Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Professor)
Content
Part 1 The Writer and his Setting; Chapter 1 Biographical background; Chapter 2 Cultural background; Part 2 The Art of Conrad; Chapter 3 Conrad on his art; Chapter 4 The pressure towards paradox; Chapter 5 The covert plot: three examples; Chapter 6 Textual commentaries; Chapter 7 Nostromo; Chapter 8 Heroes, heroines, gender and feminism; Chapter 9 Conrad's place in literary history; Part 3 Reference Section; symbp A list of symbolic or allegoric names in Conrad's fiction; Gazetteer; Short biographies;
