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Conrad, Joseph - 1857–1924, English novelist, b. Berdichev, Russia (now Berdychiv, Ukraine), originally named Jósef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski. Born of Polish parents, he is considered one of the greatest novelists and prose stylists in English literature. In 1874, Conrad went to sea and later joined (1878) an English merchant ship, becoming (1884) a master mariner as well as a British citizen. Retiring from the merchant fleet in 1894, he began his career as a novelist, and all of his novels are written in English, an acquired language. His notable early works include The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897), Lord Jim (1900), and the novellas Youth (1902), Heart of Darkness (1902), and Typhoon (1903). The novels Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), and Chance (1913) are regarded by many as Conrad's greatest works. Of his later works, Victory (1915) is the best known. He also collaborated on two novels with Ford Madox Ford, The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). Marked by a distinctive, opulent prose style, Conrad's novels combine realism and high drama. Their settings include nautical backgrounds as well as high society, and international politics. Conrad was a skilled creator of atmosphere and character; the impact of various situations was augmented by his use of symbolism. He portrayed acutely the conflict between non-western cultures and modern civilization. His characters exhibit the possibilities for isolation and moral deterioration in modern life.

See his complete works (26 vol., 1924–26); biographies by J. Baines (1960), F. M. Ford (1965) and F. R. Karl (1979); studies by E. Said (1966), R. Curle (1968), J. A. Palmer (1968), B. Johnson (1971) and I. Watt (1980); bibliography by T. G. Ehrsam (1969).

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Youth; Heart of Darkness; The End of the Tether: Three Stories » Read Now
by Joseph Conrad. 348 pgs.

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...OF JOSEPH CONRAD YOUTH HEART OF DARKNESS and THE END OF THE TETHER TO MY WIFE YOUTH HEART OF DARKNESS THE END OF THE TETHER Three...of the inscrutable gods. "Heart of...
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (literary criticism) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 145 pgs.

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-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature
-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism
-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Casebook » Read Now
by Gene M. Moore. 279 pgs.

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A Joseph Conrad Companion (Chap. 5 "Heart of Darkness: (1899)") » Read Now
by Leonard Orr, Theodore Billy. 346 pgs.

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Best known as the author of Heart of Darkness (1899), Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is one of the most widely taught writers in the English language. In addition to his novels, he wrote several pieces of short fiction, essays, and memoirs. He also wrote numerous letters, which help shed light on his...
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Best known as the author of Heart of Darkness (1899), Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is one of the most widely taught writers in the English language. In addition to his novels, he wrote several pieces of short fiction, essays, and memoirs. He also wrote numerous letters, which help shed light on his troubled life and career. This reference book is a thorough guide to the entire body of his writings and to the experiences that helped generate them. A biographical chapter discusses research on Conrad's life and tells the story of his birth in a Ukrainian area of Poland under Czarist Russian rule, his sea career in France and England, his travels throughout Asia, South America, and Africa, and his maturation as a writer. The chapters that follow are written by expert contributors and explore each of his major works in detail. Other chapters explore his voluminous correspondence, his later novels, his short fiction, and other writings. Thus the volume provides those new to Conrad with essential biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information, while it simultaneously offers experienced readers of Conrad new critical perspectives.
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Colonizers, Cannibals, and the Horror of Good Intentions in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in Studies in Short Fiction » Read Now
by Carola M. Kaplan. 11 pgs.

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...Intentions in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness by Carola M. Kaplan...narrative of Charlie Marlow in Heart of Darkness. Throughout the text, Marlow...narrative perspective...
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The Anatomy of Failure in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now
by Susan J. Navarette. 37 pgs.

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...Failure in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness Susan J. Navarette I can...sighs. -- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness ( 1899 ) 3 Like the thorny...have grown up around Conrad...
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Cultural Psychosis on the Frontier: The Work of the Darkness in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Tony C. Brown. 15 pgs.

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...THE DARKNESS IN JOSEPH CONRADS HEART OF DARKNESS. by TONY C. BROWN...Grimaces of the Real"(1) Heart of Darkness has perversely proved a central...the long shadow of Conrads...
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'Heart of Darkness' and Late-Victorian Fascination with the Primitive and the Double, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Samir Elbarbary. 14 pgs.

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...Heart of Darkness and late-Victorian fascination with...of the abomination" that Marlow in Heart of Darkness offers to his listeners (6), was prevalent...passionate uproar...
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Joseph Conrad: The Way of Dispossession (Chap. Three "'Heart of Darkness'") » Read Now
by H. M. Daleski. 219 pgs.

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Postcolonial Criticism (Chap. 3 "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness") » Read Now
by Bart Moore-Gilbert, Gareth Stanton, Willy Maley. 312 pgs.

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This text comprises 13 key essays focusing on colonial writing, covering topics such as the decolonisation of African literature, literary studies and British rule in India, language of class and the ideologies of immigration.
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The Foreign Woman in British Literature: Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders (Chap. 9 "Phantoms Mistaken for a Human Face: Race and the Construction of the African Woman's Identity in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness") » Read Now
by Marilyn Demarest Button, Toni Reed. 201 pgs.

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While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and political complexities that have emerged as people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds have moved within her borders, or when her own citizens have emigrated among...
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While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and political complexities that have emerged as people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds have moved within her borders, or when her own citizens have emigrated among those foreigners to live or rule. This book explores the foreign element in English culture and the attempt by English writers from the early 19th to the mid 20th century to portray their complex and often ambiguous responses to that doubly foreign element among them: the foreign woman. While being foreign may begin with national or ethnic difference, the contributors to this book expand it to include other forms of alienation from a dominant culture, resulting from gender, race, class, ideology, or temperament.
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Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma: Bewildered Traveller (Includes discussion of Heart of Darkness in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by John W. Griffith. 254 pgs.

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Conrad's early fiction originated as a response to his travels in Malaysia, Borneo, and the Congo. As a sensitive observer of other cultures and a notable emigre, he was profoundly aware of the psychological impact of travel, and much of his early fiction portrays both literal and figurative voyages...
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Conrad's early fiction originated as a response to his travels in Malaysia, Borneo, and the Congo. As a sensitive observer of other cultures and a notable emigre, he was profoundly aware of the psychological impact of travel, and much of his early fiction portrays both literal and figurative voyages of Europeans into other cultures. This is the first detailed analysis of Conrad's early works in relation to other writings on "primitive" peoples, notably nineteenth-century anthropology, Victorian travel writing, and contemporary anthropological theory.
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Darkness at Heart: Fathers and Sons in Conrad (Includes discussion of Heart of Darkness in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Catharine Rising. 212 pgs.

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This study of Joseph Conrad's fiction addresses a major theme neglected in previous studies: the protagonist's struggle to find (or keep) his place in a world of men. Structured around Conrad's use and subsequent abandonment of Oedipal compromise, the book provides a Freudian and post-Freudian...
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This study of Joseph Conrad's fiction addresses a major theme neglected in previous studies: the protagonist's struggle to find (or keep) his place in a world of men. Structured around Conrad's use and subsequent abandonment of Oedipal compromise, the book provides a Freudian and post-Freudian analysis of father/son relationships in Conrad's work. Defining the father as any older male with power and influence over a younger one, Rising examines wide thematic variations that show Conrad's obsessive concern with paternity--as an object either of fear and hatred or of longing.
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Challenging Hierarchies: Issues and Themes in Colonial and Postcolonial African Literature (Chap. 11 "Narrative Distancing and the (De)Construction of Imperialist Consciousness in 'The Man Who Would Be King' and Heart of Darkness") » Read Now
by Leonard A. Podis, Yakubu Saaka. 328 pgs.

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...Man Who Would Be King" and Heart of Darkness 179 IV...western view that Conrads Heart of Darkness is anti-imperialist. Adekoya...racist is wrongheaded, since Heart of...