Wine in Old and New Bottles - Critical Paradigms for Joseph Conrad - Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives V23

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-83-7784-301-7
Verlag: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press

Buch, Englisch, 325 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives

This volume presents a galaxy of traditional and modern critical approaches to Joseph Conrad’s oeuvre, ranging from biographical and autobiographical studies to literary comparisons with John Milton, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Cormac McCarthy; from postcolonial and Marxist analyses to reader-response, intertextual, and archetypal criticism. Some pieces incorporate the theoretical-philosophical insights of Josiah Royce, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Lacan; others consult Jacques Derrida, Homi Bhabha, and Slavoj Žižek.

Apart from Conrad’s life and its reflection in his writings, these essays illuminate such thematics as the critique of reality; nationalism; imperial evil; racism; landscape and truth; impressionism; psychological archetypes; doubling and defamiliarization; alienation and selfhood; the uncanny; imaginary identification and the real; ideology as specter; unconditional hospitality; the theory of whirling and veering; and academic teachings of Conrad, both their past character and future possibilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krajka, Wieslaw

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Über Autor(innen)

Krajka, Wieslaw
Is profesor emeritus at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He is the author of Isolation and Ethos: A Study of Joseph Conrad (1992) and editor of Various Dimensions of the Other in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction (2020), Some Intertextual Chords of Joseph Conrad’s Literary Art (2019), Joseph Conrad’s Authorial Self. Polish and Other (2018), among others, and the editor of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives.

Wieslaw Krajka is a professor in the English Department at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He is editor of From Szlachta Culture to the XXI Century, Between East and West: New Essays on Joseph Conrad's Polishness, and the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series and the principal organizer of five international Conrad conferences at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University.