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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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Lord Jim: A Tale » Read Now
by Joseph Conrad, John Batchelor. 320 pgs.

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...OXFORD WORLDS CLASSICS LORD JIM JOSEPH CONRAD was born Jozef...works such as Heart of Darkness , Lord Jim , and Nostromo display technical...1985 , a full-length study of...
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Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim (Literary Criticism) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 148 pgs.

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A Joseph Conrad Companion (Chap. 6 "Lord Jim (1900)") » 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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The Moral Sense in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, in Humanitas » Read Now
by George A. Panichas. 21 pgs.

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...The Moral Sense in Joseph Conrads Lord Jim. by George A. Panichas Lord Jim (1900), Joseph Conrads fourth novel...dichotomies, as we find them depicted in Lord Jim, are...
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"They Always Leave Us": 'Lord Jim,' Colonialist Discourse, and Conrad's Magic Naturalism, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Richard Ruppel. 13 pgs.

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..."They always leave us": Lord Jim, colonialist discourse, and Conrads...naturalism by Richard Ruppel Lord Jim is full of thumbnail biographies that...one of many colonialist...
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Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism (Chap. Four "Lord Jim: The Refuge of Art") » Read Now
by Mark A. Wollaeger. 262 pgs.

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Conrad, Language and Narrative (Chap. Five "The Scandals of Lord Jim") » Read Now
by Michael Greaney. 194 pgs.

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In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. As a trilingual Polish expatriate, Conrad brought a formidable linguistic self-consciousness to the English novel and tensions between speech and writing...
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In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. As a trilingual Polish expatriate, Conrad brought a formidable linguistic self-consciousness to the English novel and tensions between speech and writing are the defining obsessions of his career. Greaney examines a wide range of Conrad's work, combining recent critical approaches to language in post-structuralism with an impressive command of linguistic theory.
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Conrad the Novelist (Chap. Four "Lord Jim (I)" and Chap. Five "Lord Jim (II)") » Read Now
by Albert J. Guaerard. 328 pgs.

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...Dorothy Van Ghents chapter on Lord Jim in The English Novel: Form and...and novelettes. The chapters on Lord Jim and Nostromo attempt lengthy if...NARCISSUS" 100 4 LORD...
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Conrad: A Reassessment (Chap. III "Lord Jim") » Read Now
by Douglas Hewitt. 141 pgs.

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...of Darkness 16 III Lord Jim 31 IV Falk: The Observer...Conrads victory p. 164 , or: In Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad exteriorized, in...Secret Agent, The End of the Tether, Lord...
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Darkness at Heart: Fathers and Sons in Conrad (Chap. 3 "The Jeopardy of the Son on Land: From 'The Idiots' to Lord Jim") » 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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The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells (Chap. 5 "The Burden of Kipling: Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness") » Read Now
by Daniel Born. 214 pgs.

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...CHAPTER 5 The Burden of Kipling: Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness 100...Marlow tells Stein in chapter 20 of Lord Jim , "Strictly speaking, the question...type" she despises;...
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Narrative Ethics (Chap. 3 "We Die in a Last Word: Conrad's Lord Jim and Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio") » Read Now
by Adam Zachary Newton. 336 pgs.

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The ethics of literature, formalists have insisted, resides in the moral quality of a character, a story, perhaps the relation between author and reader. But in the wake of deconstruction and various forms of criticism focusing on difference, the ethical question has been freshly engaged by literary...
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The ethics of literature, formalists have insisted, resides in the moral quality of a character, a story, perhaps the relation between author and reader. But in the wake of deconstruction and various forms of criticism focusing on difference, the ethical question has been freshly engaged by literary studies, and to this approach Adam Newton brings a startling new thrust. His book makes a compelling case for understanding narrative as ethics. Assuming an intrinsic and necessary connection between the two, Newton explores the ethical consequences of telling stories and fictionalizing character, and the reciprocal claims binding teller, listener, witness, and reader in the process. He treats these relations as defining properties of prose fiction, of particular import in nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts. Newton's fresh and nuanced readings cover a wide range of authors and periods, from Charles Dickens to Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, from Herman Melville to Richard Wright, from Joseph Conrad and Henry James to Sherwood Anderson and Stephen Crane. An original work of theory as well as a deft critical performance, Narrative Ethics also stakes a claim for itself as moral inquiry. To that end, Newton braids together the ethical-philosophical projects of Emmanuel Levinas, Stanley Cavell, and Mikhail Bakhtin as a kind of chorus for his textual analyses - an elegant bridge between philosophy's ear and literary criticism's voice. His work will generate enormous interest among scholars and students of English and American literature, as well as specialists in narrative and literary theory, hermeneutics, and contemporary philosophy.
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Joseph Conrad, the Way of Dispossession (Discussion of "Lord Jim" begins on p. 77) » Read Now
by H. M. Daleski. 234 pgs.

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The Dark and Light Gods: Essays on the Self in Modern Literature ("Conrad's Lord Jim: Courage, Cowardice, and the Self" begins on p. 46) » Read Now
by Donald Gutierrez. 226 pgs.

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". . . [Guiterrez] examines the existence or reality of the self through a scrutiny of late 19th and 20th century works of fiction and non-fiction. . . . Methodology and style are accessible to undergraduates, and the study should prove useful background for modern literature courses."—CHOICE
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Joseph Conrad's "Sudden Holes" in Time: The Epistemology of Temporality, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by John G. Peters. 22 pgs.

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...registered on his watch. Early in Lord Jim, discrepancies between personal time...seconds that form western linear time. Lord Jim and The Shadow Line include similar...with...
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Conrad and Cinema: The Art of Adaptation (Chap. 6 "The Disenchanted: Lord Jim (1925 and 1965)") » Read Now
by Gene D. Phillips. 220 pgs.

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...Chapter 6 The Disenchanted: Lord Jim 1925 and 1965 97...Narcissus published. 1900 Lord Jim is published. 1902 Youth and...Release of the first film version of Lord Jim ...