Recently added articles from Conradiana:
A rage for order: fetishism, self-betrayal, and exploitation in The Secret Agent.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Lutz, John ... <Pre>Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale RamonThe maker's rage to order words of the seaWords of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,And of ourselves and our origins,In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds. --Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West" ...
"The horror! The horror!": Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a Gothic novel.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Lipka, Jennifer ... The only legitimate basis of creative work lies in the courageous recognition of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous, so full of hope. They exist! And this is the only fundamental truth of fiction. ...
"Under a cloud": silence, identity, and interpretation in Lord Jim.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Hannah, Daniel ... "It is certain my Conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it" (Lord ii) The function of Lord Jim's opening epigraph from Novalis is twofold: it immediately establishes the text's concern with intersubjective exchange and simultaneously places a gap ...
"Absurd be--exploded!": re-membering experience through liminality in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.(Joseph Conrad)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Solinger, Fred ... Concluding his essay "DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation," Homi Bhabha writes: "it is by living on the borderline of history and language, on the limits of race and gender, that we are in a position to translate the differences between them into a kind of ...
Polyphony in Lord Jim: On Ubermensch.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Tourchon, Patrick ... If Jim becomes a "Lord" (a Tuan) in the second part of the eponymous novel, set in Patusan, it is because in this remote area he is as powerful and influential as James (= Jim) Brooke used to be in Sarawak. Jim, there, is a lord in the same measure as James Brooke was a white "raja." And ...
Tim Middleton. Joseph Conrad.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Acheraiou, Amar ... Tim Middleton. Joseph Conrad. London: Routledge, 2006. 201 pp. ISBN 0-41526-852-4 Tim Middleton's introduction to Joseph Conrad is, to put it bluntly, a mitigated intellectual undertaking. Framed in an accessible style and clear diction, this volume offers an informed, ...
Mario Curreli, ed. The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures, Second Series: Papers from the International Conrad Conference, University of Pisa, Sept. 16th-18th, 2004.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Bender, Todd K. ... Mario Curreli, ed. The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures, Second Series: Papers from the International Conrad Conference, University of Pisa, Sept. 16th-18th, 2004. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2005. 315 pp. ISBN 8-84671-227-7 The 2004 International Conference, like the 1983 meeting, was ...
Paul B. Armstrong. Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Deresiewicz, William ... Paul B. Armstrong. Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.218 pp. 0-8014-4325-3 Can reading make you a better person? Does literary study contribute to the health of society? Most of us, I expect, would answer ...