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The Editor's Dilemma: Conrad's Revisitings of His Works Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-11-01 G.W. Stephen Brodsky
Except for his revisitings of printed text in his own hand, few emendations can be known for sure to have been with Conrad’s approval or even knowledge. The trouble is compounded by there being two Conrads: the Conrad who came from the sea and became a published author in 1895 in his late thirties, and the seasoned author at almost twice that age in his early sixties, full of honors, who wrote most
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"A lot of men too indolent for whist—and a story" The Telling Situation in "Youth," Heart of Darkness, and Lord Jim Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Annalee Sellers
This essay closely reads the “telling situations” of the Marlow trilogy. These meta-narratives represent a specific type of the storytelling “occasion” (James Phelan’s “narrative as rhetoric”) that is self-conscious. I argue Conrad was ultimately more interested in how we impose the form of a narrative onto a narration of another person’s life-events in an attempt to account for the other’s thoughts
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"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality": A Possible Source for Under Western Eyes Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Alan Procter
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality”: A Possible Source for Under Western Eyes Alan Procter (bio) The third sentence of Under Western Eyes, in the words of Conrad’s Russian-literate narrator, reads, “Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.” In the four parts of the novel that follow, this startling claim
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Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad ed. by Kim Salmons and Tania Zulli (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Richard Ruppel
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad ed. by Kim Salmons and Tania Zulli Richard Ruppel (bio) Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad. Edited by Kim Salmons and Tania Zulli. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. 239 pp. ISBN: 9781350168923. To help celebrate the 2022 New
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Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford: A Study in Collaboration by John Hope Morey (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Fiona Houston
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford: A Study in Collaboration by John Hope Morey Fiona Houston (bio) Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford: A Study in Collaboration John Hope Morey. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 198 pp. ISBN: 9789004449701. While the relationship and collaboration between Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford is well known and
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A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-11-01 G. W. Stephen Brodsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad G. W. Stephen Brodsky (bio) Joseph Conrad. A Set of Six. Edited by Allen H. Simmons and Michael Foster, with Owen Knowles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 517 pp. ISBN: 9781107189133. THE BOOK This newly authoritative volume of A Set of Six, the seventeenth of The Cambridge Edition
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Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd by Judith Paltin (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Jana M. Giles
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd by Judith Paltin Jana M. Giles (bio) Judith Paltin. Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 225 pp. ISBN: 9781108842235. Crowds are in the news again in our time, as mass protests surge around the world and intellectuals debate their effectiveness
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The Inheritors and The Nature of a Crime by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Linda Dryden
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Inheritors and The Nature of a Crime by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford Linda Dryden (bio) Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. The Inheritors and The Nature of a Crime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 334 pp. ISBN: 9781139061452. The Cambridge Edition of The Inheritors (1901) and The Nature of a Crime (1909)
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Contributors Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-11-01
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors G. W. STEPHEN BRODSKY, Royal Roads Military College (Retired), is author of Joseph Conrad’s Polish Soul (2016). His articles and reviews on Conrad have appeared in Conradiana, The Conradian, Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, Zwischen Ost und West: Joseph Conrad im europäischen Gespräch, the Jagiellonian University
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Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 John G. Peters, Jana M. Giles, Anna Bounds, Melissa Jackson, Karla Robertson, Tia Smith
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ConradianaA Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies John G. Peters, Editor, Jana M. Giles, Managing Editor, Anna Bounds, Melissa Jackson, Karla Robertson, and Tia Smith, Editorial Interns Conradiana, an international journal devoted to and welcoming essays on all aspects and periods of the life and works of Joseph Conrad, is published three times
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The Curious Incident of the Duel Before Tea Time: Joseph Conrad's Mysterious Marseilles Mistake Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 G. W. Steven Brodsky
On the evening of Friday, March 2, 1878, or thereabouts, Joseph Conrad, aged twenty, arguably tried to end his life. His attempt (if even actually made) was almost certainly feigned. Conrad’s friend Richard Fecht imputedly came to tea with him and found him wounded. Biographers have marshalled or embellished the few already suspect facts, have made some tendentious conjectures and drawn some provisional
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Tracing the "Unmappable Zone" of Black Sociality in Conrad and Casement Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Raffi Kiureghian
Postcolonial scholarship on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness has convincingly argued that the novel is a racist, imperialist text. Yet the most prominent of these critiques—namely by Chinua Achebe and Edward Said—rely on humanist assumptions about race that have been challenged by recent, anti-humanist theorizations of Blackness. In this essay, I examine Conrad’s novel in relation to the contemporary
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The Reader in the Labyrinth of Conrad's "The Brute" Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Douglas Kerr
Was Joseph Conrad right about “The Brute” when he advised a friend to read the story in the train and then throw the magazine out of the window? This essay explores the experience of being a reader of this tale, which sometimes seems like a labyrinth offering a clutch of threads that might lead to a satisfying issue of thematic richness and coherence, only to leave the reader, all too often, at a dead
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"Listening to the thunder of the waves": Nature and Taoism in The Nigger of the "Narcissus" Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 An Ning
This essay aims to explore the relationship between nature and the human in The Nigger of the “Narcissus” by drawing on early Taoism. Firstly, it examines Joseph Conrad’s view of nature and critics’ comments in regard to his varied attitudes, and then scrutinizes the filial relationship between the sea and the sailors in “Narcissus.” Second, using David E. Cooper’s interpretation of early Taoism as
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Conrad's Reading: Space, Time, Networks by Helen Chambers (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Debra Romanick Baldwin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Conrad’s Reading: Space, Time, Networks by Helen Chambers Debra Romanick Baldwin (bio) Helen Chambers. Conrad’s Reading: Space, Time, Networks. Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2018. xiii + 245 pp. ISBN: 9783319764863. Conradians are well aware that Conrad was throughout his life a voracious reader. As Helen Chambers puts
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Hardy, Conrad and the Senses by Hugh Epstein (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Brian Richardson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hardy, Conrad and the Senses by Hugh Epstein Brian Richardson (bio) Hugh Epstein. Hardy, Conrad and the Senses. Edinburgh: University Press, 2020. 304 pp. ISBN: 9781474449861. Hugh Epstein’s book is a revealing study of sensory experience, sight, and sound in the work of Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad framed largely by the
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Joseph Conrad's Authorial Self / Polish and Other ed. by Wiesław Krajka (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Cedric Watts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Joseph Conrad’s Authorial Self / Polish and Other ed. by Wiesław Krajka Cedric Watts (bio) Joseph Conrad’s Authorial Self / Polish and Other. Edited by Wiesław Krajka. Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, 2018. xi + 402 pp. ISBN: 9788322790564. This is a richly varied collection of essays which sheds new light
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The Nigger of the "Narcissus" by Joseph Conrad (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 G. W. Stephen Brodsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Nigger of the “Narcissus” by Joseph Conrad G. W. Stephen Brodsky (bio) Joseph Conrad. The Nigger of the “Narcissus”. Edited by Allan H. Simmons. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 364 pp. ISBN: 978110741407. The Nigger of the “Narcissus” (1897) marked Conrad’s
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Joseph Conrad by Robert Hampson (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 G. W. Stephen Brodsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Joseph Conrad by Robert Hampson G. W. Stephen Brodsky (bio) Robert Hampson. Joseph Conrad. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. 224 pp. ISBN: 9781789143071. Joseph Conrad by Robert Hampson adds lustre to a collection of ninety-eight critical works at its date of publication (2020) in Reaktion Books’ Critical Lives Series, devoted
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The Rover by Joseph Conrad (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Andrea White
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Rover by Joseph Conrad Andrea White (bio) Joseph Conrad. The Rover. Edited by Alexandre Fachard and J. H. Stape. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9781107149021. The Cambridge Edition of the works of Joseph Conrad is almost complete. This impressive
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Le storie di Conrad. Biografia intellettuale di un romanziere by Richard Ambrosini (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Tania Zulli
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Le storie di Conrad. Biografia intellettuale di un romanziere by Richard Ambrosini Tania Zulli Richard Ambrosini. Le storie di Conrad. Biografia intellettuale di un romanziere. Rome: Carocci, 2019. 339 pp. ISBN: 9788843096435. At a publishing house in Milan called Bottega di Poesia (Poetry Workshop), a group of artists and
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Conrad's Drama: Contemporary Reviews and Observations ed. by John G. Peters (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Conrad’s Drama: Contemporary Reviews and Observations ed. by John G. Peters Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech (bio) Conrad’s Drama: Contemporary Reviews and Observations. Edited by John G. Peters. Leiden and Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2019; xxxii + 483 pp. ISBN: 9799004399099. The indispensable “Conrad Studies” series from Brill Rodopi
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Cedric T. Watts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Cedric T. Watts (bio) Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. 2nd ed. Edited by John G. Peters. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2019. 231 pp. ISBN: 9781554813513. Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. 3rd ed. Edited by D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2020.
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The Routledge Companion to Ford Madox Ford ed. by Sara Haslam, Laura Colombino and Seamus O'Malley (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Fiona Houston
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Routledge Companion to Ford Madox Ford ed. by Sara Haslam, Laura Colombino and Seamus O’Malley Fiona Houston (bio) The Routledge Companion to Ford Madox Ford. Edited by Sara Haslam, Laura Colombino, and Seamus O’Malley. New York: Routledge, 2021. 494 pp. ISBN: 9781032094236. Ford Madox Ford is a somewhat complicated writer
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Conrad and Nature: Essays ed. by Lissa Schneider-Rebozo et al (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Cedric Watts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Conrad and Nature: Essays ed. by Lissa Schneider-Rebozo et al Cedric Watts (bio) Conrad and Nature: Essays. Edited by Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, and John G. Peters. New York and Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019. 328 pp. ISBN: 9781138710122. Lissa Schneider-Rebozo and Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy begin by declaring:
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Dedicated to the Memory of J. Hillis Miller, 1928–2021 Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 John G. Peters
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dedicated to the Memory of J. Hillis Miller, 1928–2021 John G. Peters (bio) I never personally met Joseph Hillis Miller, but I corresponded with him on a number of occasions. I first wrote to him while working on Joseph Conrad’s Critical Reception. I had read his chapters on Conrad in his Poets of Reality previously, but it was only when
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J. Hillis Miller Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Jakob Lothe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: J. Hillis Miller Jakob Lothe (bio) J. Hillis Miller made very important contributions to critical trends as different as phenomenology, deconstruction, and narrative ethics. He also made a significant contribution to Conrad studies. Over the course of a career that lasted from the mid-1950s until 2020, Miller turned, and returned, to Conrad’s
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J. Hillis Miller Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Byron Santangelo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: J. Hillis Miller Byron Santangelo (bio) J. Hillis Miller (1928–2021) joined a rare and inspiring flexibility of mind with a deep sense of responsibility to others and otherness. These traits were reflected in his formulation of the ethics of reading, which foregrounds the importance of bearing witness as faithfully as possible through
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An Exemplary Reader: J. Hillis Miller on Criticism as Performance Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Nidesh Lawtoo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: An Exemplary Reader: J. Hillis Miller on Criticism as Performance Nidesh Lawtoo (bio) The disappearance of J. Hillis Miller left a yawning void among the community of literacy critics and theorists around the world, but the traces of his admirable readings live on and remain to be followed up. Professor Miller was, in fact, a brilliant
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A Confucian Construction of Joseph Conrad's Sincerity Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 An Ning
This essay starts from a question: Why are Conrad’s works so enduring and far reaching? A basic Confucian concept, Cheng (诚, sincerity), seems to offer a ready answer to this question. According to The Doctrine of the Mean (中庸, one of The Four Books), “entire sincerity is ceaseless,” meaning if a person possesses absolute sincerity, his influence will be long lasting and far reaching. This essay demonstrates
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The True Self as Social Solidarity in Conrad's The Secret Sharer and The Shadow-Line Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Erik Robb Thompson
Seeking to contribute to the recent scholarly work on Girardian mimesis, this article adds a Winnicottian dimension in the form of a dialectic between false and true selves to an analysis of two works by Joseph Conrad. Scholars such as Nidesh Lawtoo and Martha Reineke elaborate, widen, and interrogate what Girard himself has written about positive mimesis. This project will build on Reineke’s work
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Reading Reading Conrad ed. by John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Nidesh Lawtoo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Reading Reading Conrad ed. by John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe Nidesh Lawtoo Reading Conrad. Edited by John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017. pp. 260. ISBN: 9780814254356. As its two-word title elegantly suggests, J. Hillis Miller’s Reading Conrad has a double focus that reflects the
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J. Hillis Miller Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Jakob Lothe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: J. Hillis Miller Jakob Lothe (bio) J. Hillis Miller made very important contributions to critical trends as different as phenomenology, deconstruction, and narrative ethics. He also made a significant contribution to Conrad studies. Over the course of a career that lasted from the mid-1950s until 2020, Miller turned, and returned, to Conrad’s
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J. Hillis Miller Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Byron Santangelo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: J. Hillis Miller Byron Santangelo (bio) J. Hillis Miller (1928–2021) joined a rare and inspiring flexibility of mind with a deep sense of responsibility to others and otherness. These traits were reflected in his formulation of the ethics of reading, which foregrounds the importance of bearing witness as faithfully as possible through
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Reading Reading Conrad ed. by John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Nidesh Lawtoo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Reading Reading Conrad ed. by John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe Nidesh Lawtoo Reading Conrad. Edited by John G. Peters and Jakob Lothe. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017. pp. 260. ISBN: 9780814254356. As its two-word title elegantly suggests, J. Hillis Miller’s Reading Conrad has a double focus that reflects the
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Dedicated to the Memory of J. Hillis Miller, 1928–2021 Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 John G. Peters
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dedicated to the Memory of J. Hillis Miller, 1928–2021 John G. Peters (bio) I never personally met Joseph Hillis Miller, but I corresponded with him on a number of occasions. I first wrote to him while working on Joseph Conrad’s Critical Reception. I had read his chapters on Conrad in his Poets of Reality previously, but it was only when
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A Confucian Construction of Joseph Conrad's Sincerity Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 An Ning
This essay starts from a question: Why are Conrad’s works so enduring and far reaching? A basic Confucian concept, Cheng (诚, sincerity), seems to offer a ready answer to this question. According to The Doctrine of the Mean (中庸, one of The Four Books), “entire sincerity is ceaseless,” meaning if a person possesses absolute sincerity, his influence will be long lasting and far reaching. This essay demonstrates
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The True Self as Social Solidarity in Conrad's The Secret Sharer and The Shadow-Line Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Erik Robb Thompson
Seeking to contribute to the recent scholarly work on Girardian mimesis, this article adds a Winnicottian dimension in the form of a dialectic between false and true selves to an analysis of two works by Joseph Conrad. Scholars such as Nidesh Lawtoo and Martha Reineke elaborate, widen, and interrogate what Girard himself has written about positive mimesis. This project will build on Reineke’s work
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An Exemplary Reader: J. Hillis Miller on Criticism as Performance Conradiana Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Nidesh Lawtoo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: An Exemplary Reader: J. Hillis Miller on Criticism as Performance Nidesh Lawtoo (bio) The disappearance of J. Hillis Miller left a yawning void among the community of literacy critics and theorists around the world, but the traces of his admirable readings live on and remain to be followed up. Professor Miller was, in fact, a brilliant
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In Memory of Thomas Moser Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 John G. Peters
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In Memory of Thomas Moser John G. Peters (bio) What follows is a forum dedicated to the memory of Thomas Moser. The contributors are all former students of Professor Moser and are well-known Conrad scholars. I think it is quite appropriate to honor Professor Moser, who passed away several years ago. His impact on the field of Conrad scholarship
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Tom Moser Tribute Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Hunt Hawkins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Tom Moser Tribute Hunt Hawkins (bio) In the fall of 1971 I sat on a bench outside Tom Moser’s office, waiting to ask him to be my dissertation adviser. Beside me sat John McClure, planning the same. We had both spent time teaching in Africa in newly liberated countries where the enormous fact of European colonization had been revealed
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In Memory of Thomas C. Moser, Sr Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Peter Mallios
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In Memory of Thomas C. Moser, Sr Peter Mallios (bio) I’m not sure I would ever have been a Conrad scholar were it not for Tom Moser. My fascination with Conrad dates back to college, but it was only in graduate school, when Tom casually laid in my box an advertisement for a Conrad conference at Drexel University, that I seemed to cross
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"But the memory remains": Recollection, Globalization, and Empire in "Karain" Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Andrei Smolnikov
In “Karain: A Memory,” Conrad presents a sustained reflection on the interplay between the political forces of globalization and the personal influence of memory on writing, interrogating the mechanisms by which a landscape from the past may be recalled, molded, and reified in ink on paper. The story subjects the role of memory, acting across extraordinary spatiotemporal ranges to influence and be
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Witnessing the Remains in Zola's Thérèse Raquin and Conrad's The Secret Agent Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Ellen Burton Harrington
Émile Zola and Joseph Conrad shock the reader by prominently featuring the brutalized bodies of members of the family at the heart of the novels Thérèse Raquin and The Secret Agent, using these texts to dissect the psychology behind both killing and bearing witness to violence. Highlighting the suffocating and confining nature of nineteenth-century wifehood, these novels turn the seedy, commonplace
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"All his life seemed to rush into that hand": The Poetics and Erotics of Touch in Conrad's Fiction Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Brian Richardson
Over the course of his career, Conrad’s descriptions of touch form a remarkable trajectory. The early Malay novels, Almayer’s Folly and An Outcast of the Islands, present a woman’s sensual touch as a dangerous, debilitating experience for a man. For the next several years, Conrad’s descriptions of touch are rare and muted, even in situations that would seem to call for more detailed and explicit accounts
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Joseph Conrad on the French Stage: One Day More as Demain Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Susan McCready
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Joseph Conrad on the French Stage: One Day More as Demain Susan McCready (bio) In the summer of 1913, The English Review published the play One Day More, Joseph Conrad’s adaptation of his 1902 short story “To-morrow,” noting that the play had been “performed in 1904 by the Stage Society and also at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, Paris” (Conrad
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Three Exemplary Editions of Heart of Darkness: A Comparative Review of Editorial Modes and Styles Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 G. W. Stephen Brodsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Three Exemplary Editions of Heart of DarknessA Comparative Review of Editorial Modes and Styles G. W. Stephen Brodsky (bio) Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. Edited by Paul B. Armstrong. Fifth Norton Critical Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2017. 478 pp. ISBN: 9790393264869. Joseph Conrad. Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether
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The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Cedric Watts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad Cedric Watts (bio) Joseph Conrad. The Secret Agent. Edited by Richard Niland. New York: W. W. Norton, 2017. viii + 386 pp. ISBN: 9780393937442. This volume is part of the Norton Critical Edition series, which is notably characterized by the provision of ample contextual material. Richard Niland’s
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"Sailing towards Poland" with Joseph Conrad by Jean M. Szczypien (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Mark D. Larabee
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: “Sailing towards Poland” with Joseph Conrad by Jean M. Szczypien Mark D. Larabee (bio) Jean M. Szczypien. “Sailing towards Poland” with Joseph Conrad. New York: Peter Lang, 2017. xx + 269 pp. ISBN: 9781433127526. Jean Szczypien’s “Sailing towards Poland” with Joseph Conrad begins by pointing to a puzzling contradiction. On
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Conrad's Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory by Nidesh Lawtoo (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Claude Maisonnat
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Conrad’s Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory by Nidesh Lawtoo Claude Maisonnat (bio) Nidesh Lawtoo. Conrad’s Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory. Ann Arbor: Michigan State University Press, 2017. xiii + 420 pp. ISBN: 9781611862188. Here is an innovative book that deliberately stands apart from run-of-the-mill critical studies
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Joseph Conrad and the Voicing of Textuality by Claude Maisonnat (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Brian Artese
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Joseph Conrad and the Voicing of Textuality by Claude Maisonnat Brian Artese Claude Maisonnat. Joseph Conrad and the Voicing of Textuality. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xii + 453 pp. Claude Maisonnat offers a wide-ranging study of at least seventeen of Conrad’s fictions, including all of the major novels except
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Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Eating as Narrative by Kim Salmons (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Seamus O'Malley
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Eating as Narrative by Kim Salmons Seamus O’Malley (bio) Kim Salmons. Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Eating as Narrative. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 127 pp. ISBN: 9783319566221. Scholarly studies of food in British modernist texts can often salivate over their subjects. Readers
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Contributors Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-08-12
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors PAUL ARMSTRONG is Professor of English at Brown University. His most recent books are Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative (2020) and a Norton Critical Edition of E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (2021). G. W. STEPHEN BRODSKY is author of Joseph Conrad’s Polish Soul (2016); his articles and reviews on Conrad
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An Appeal to the Other in Us: Intimate Oppositions between Chinua Achebe and Conrad's Heart of Darkness Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Trung T. Le
Now is the opportune moment to trace a middle path between Chinua Achebe’s criticism of Conrad and Heart of Darkness for being insensitive to the issues of race and Conradians’ defense of the author and his works as being otherwise. This article examines the intimate oppositions between critics like Achebe and defenders of Conrad, as well as the desire within Marlow to respond to the blank otherness
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Heart of Darkness: Polish Transformations Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Ewa Kujawska-Lis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Heart of Darkness: Polish Transformations Ewa Kujawska-Lis (bio) Heart of Darkness is arguably the best-known Conrad work in Poland. This novella had for years been set as compulsory reading in Polish secondary schools, but was removed from the curriculum by the government in the year commemorating Conrad’s 160th birthday (2017) and established
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Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of Nonsense by Maurice Ebileeni (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Anne Luyat
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of Nonsense by Maurice Ebileeni Anne Luyat (bio) Maurice Ebileeni. Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of Nonsense. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. 155 pp. ISBN: 1501306596. Maurice Ebileeni’s psychoanalytic reading of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner explores five of their novels in the light of
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Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists: Nineteenth-Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent by David Mulry (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Michael John Disanto
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists: Nineteenth-Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent by David Mulry Michael John Disanto (bio) David Mulry. Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists: Nineteenth-Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 194 pp. ISBN: 1137502889. Writing a review of Joseph Conrad Among
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Centennial Essays on Joseph Conrad's Chance ed. by Allan H. Simmons and Susan Jones (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Robert L. Caserio
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Centennial Essays on Joseph Conrad’s Chance ed. by Allan H. Simmons and Susan Jones Robert L. Caserio (bio) Centennial Essays on Joseph Conrad’s Chance. Edited by Allan H. Simmons and Susan Jones. Leiden And Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2016. viii+180 pp. ISBN: 9789004308978. Critical response to Chance: A Tale in Two Parts has been
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Conrad's Popular Fictions: Secret Histories and Sensational Novels by Andrew Glazzard (review) Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-04-21 David Mulry
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Conrad’s Popular Fictions: Secret Histories and Sensational Novels by Andrew Glazzard David Mulry (bio) Andrew Glazzard. Conrad’s Popular Fictions: Secret Histories and Sensational Novels. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 227 pp. ISBN: 1137559160. Andrew Glazzard begins his original and thought-provoking study with a charming
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Robert Hampson's Contribution to Conrad Studies Conradiana Pub Date : 2021-02-24 John G. Peters
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Robert Hampson's Contribution to Conrad Studies John G. Peters (bio) Robert Hampson is among the most prominent Conrad scholars in the world today. He is also among the most prolific. Along with numerous articles, book chapters, and edited works, Robert Hampson has written three monographs on Conrad, all making important contributions