Cedric M a Watts (Professor)

A Preface to Conrad

Second Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Widely recommended, this guide to Conrad offers a vivid and incisive account of his life and literary career, and gives detailed attention to the contexts, themes, problems and paradoxes of his works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 131mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780582437685
• ISBN-10: 0582437687
• Artikelnr.: 39293306

Autorenporträt

Watts, Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Professor)

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The Writer and his Setting
Chapter 1 Biographical background
Chapter 2 Cultural background
Part 2 The Art of Conrad
Chapter 3 Conrad on his art
Chapter 4 The pressure towards paradox
Chapter 5 The covert plot: three examples
Chapter 6 Textual commentaries
Chapter 7 Nostromo
Chapter 8 Heroes, heroines, gender and feminism
Chapter 9 Conrad's place in literary history
Part 3 Reference Section
symbp A list of symbolic or allegoric names in Conrad's fiction
Gazetteer
Short biographies