Recently added articles from Conradiana:
Liminal spaces in Lord Jim and The Rescue.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... To intervene in the present means, then, to interrupt the performance of the present, by exploiting the in-between spaces. I understand this space, as a liminal space [ ...] a transitory space, a space other, a third space that is not here / there, but both. (Fernando de Toro 20) ...
Condomization in The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Early in Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel that earned its notoriety by speaking frankly and graphically about sex, D. H. Lawrence's spokesperson of the moment Tommy Dukes contends "that sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them"--"sex is a sort of ...
Stealing Victory?: the strange case of Conrad and Buchan.(Joseph Conrad, John Buchan)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... A reclusive and unworldly Scandinavian, the self-doubting son of a domineering father who was a writer, is content to live a life of obscurity on his remote island. But his sanctuary on the margins of civilization is invaded by a piratical gang led by a gentlemanly and murderous villain, ...
Turning Heart of Darkness into a racist text: a comparison of two Polish translations.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Since 1975 when Chinua Achebe accused Conrad of racism, calling him "a bloody racist" and amending that later to "a thoroughgoing racist," the debate on whether Conrad or his character Marlow was racist has continued unabated (257). Critical opinions are as contradictory as the views ...
Cosmic chaos in The Secret Agent and Graham Greene's It's a Battlefield.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1907) possesses some of the features of the hunted-man novel as written by writers such as Graham Greene. In The Secret Agent, Conrad dramatizes the tension between public time and individual freedom. Some of the malaise engendered by the new dimension of ...
Conrad, Joseph. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 6, 1917-1919.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Conrad, Joseph. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 6, 1917-1919. Ed. Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl, and Owen Knowles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 628 p. ISBN 0-521-56195-7 In addition to the biographies by Frederick Karl and Zdzislaw ...
Conrad, Joseph. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 7, 1920-1922.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Conrad, Joseph. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 7, 1920-1922. Ed. Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. lxv + 656 pp. ISBN 978-0-52156-196-9 I. The publication of Joseph Conrad's letters is one of the great ...
A rage for order: fetishism, self-betrayal, and exploitation in The Secret Agent.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... <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; ... 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; ... "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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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 ...
Who are the Alfuros?(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Throughout the first half of Joseph Conrad's Victory, Axel Heyst is described by the male gossips who hang about Schomberg's table d'hote as living alone like Robinson Crusoe on "a desert island," in "a desert jungle" (42, 52). The difference is that while ...
The moral ambiguity of Conrad's poetics: transgressive secret sharing in Lord Jim and Under Western Eyes.(Joseph Conrad)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... In a moment of self-reflexive lucidity, the narrator of Nabokov's Pale Fire muses that "[w]indows, as well known, have been the solace of first-person literature throughout the ages" (93). The narrator's words resonate with readers of Conrad, as a certain voyeurism clearly lies at the ...
The "passion of paternity'--Fathers and Daughters in the Works of Joseph Conrad.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... "And an immense and fierce impulse, the very passion of paternity, flamed up with all the unquenched vigour of his worthless life in a desire to see her face" ("End" 320) In July 1902, Joseph Conrad wrote to Ford Madox Ford bemoaning the laborious development of "The End of the ...
Amy Foster and the blindfolded woman.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... "Can you understand their power?" whispered the hot breath of Mr. Jones into his ear. (Victory 313) It is just over a hundred years since Joseph Conrad wrote "Amy Foster." Yet most readers still describe it as the story of Amy's husband, Yanko, a tragic victim. Moreover, the ...
"Here comes the Nazarene": Conrad's treatment of the Serani and the racial politics of empire.(Joseph Conrad)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... One morning in Patusan, Tamb' Itam, Lord Jim's "faithful and grim retainer," pointed at Cornelius and said: "Here comes the Nazarene." Marlow, who was there, remarked: "I don't think he was addressing me, though I stood at his side; his object seemed rather to awaken the indignant ...