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Author : Redmond O'Hanlon
Publisher : Salamander Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin written by Redmond O'Hanlon and published by Salamander Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131763795X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals) written by Allan Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.
Author : Allan Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138794733
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals) written by Allan Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad's detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.
Author : Allan Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism. The Challenges of Science. (Repr.) written by Allan Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Exotic Journeys written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the lives and times of famous English scientist (naturalist and "evolutionist") Charles Darwin (1809-1882), 18th c. American author of the classic Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1819-1891), England's "finest foreign ambassador of the English novel", Polish born, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) and E.M. Forster (1879-1970), one of the most esteemed English novelists of his time. The "connection" between these four men is their descriptions in their writings of "exotic" places - e.g. Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, Malaysia, Congo, India or "foreign" locales for their protagonists - Florence, Italy. Each author is introduced by a biographical essay "The Writer's Life", other sections: "Reader's Guide" which outlines the plot of at least one work from each author, exploring the characters and/or ideas (as in Darwin's case) in the story and/or work and, within this section, a beautifully illustrated "Who's Who" which provides an essential guide to understanding the central characters in the story; "The Writer at Work" which draws the reader into the individual world of the writer, examining what each sought to achieve in both a literary (or in Darwin's case scientific) career and in life itself and, within this section, "Works in Outline" which summarizes, in words and pictures, other popular stories and/or works by the author and lastly, "Sources and Inspiration" which illuminates the relationships between the personal events which shaped the era, providing a historical backdrop for the works studied.
Author : Mark Wollaeger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804766819
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism written by Mark Wollaeger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You want more scepticism at the very foundation of your work. Scepticism, the tonic of minds, the tonic of life, the agent of truth - the way of art and salvation." Joseph Conrad wrote these words to John Galsworthy in 1901, and this study argues that Conrad's skepticism forms the basis of his most important works, participating in a tradition of philosophical skepticism that extends from Descartes to the present. Conrad's epistemological and moral skepticism - expressed, forestalled, mitigated, and suppressed - provides the terms for the author's rethinking of the peculiar relation between philosophy and literary form in Conrad's writing and, more broadly, for reconsidering what it means to call any novel 'philosophical'. Among the issues freshly argued are Conrad's thematics of coercion, isolation, and betrayal; the complicated relations among author, narrator, and character; and the logic of Conradian romance, comedy, and tragedy. The author also offers a new way of conceptualizing the shape of Conrad's career, especially the 'decline' evidenced in the later fiction. The uniqueness of Conrad's multifarious literary and cultural inheritance makes it difficult to locate him securely in the dominant tradition of the British novel. A philosophical approach to Conrad, however, reveals links to other novelists - notably Hardy, Forster, and Woolf - all of whom share in the increasing philosophical burden of the modern novel by enacting the very philosophical issues that are discussed within their pages. Conrad's interest as a skeptic is heightened by the degree to which he resists the insights proffered by his own skepticism. The first chapter introduces the idea of the Conradian 'shelter', and the next two use Schopenhauer to show how the language of metaphysical speculation in Tales of Unrest and 'Heart of Darkness' spills over into a religious impulse that resists the disintegrating effect of Conrad's skepticism. The author then turns to Hume to model the authorial skepticism that in Lord Jim contests the continuing visionary strain of the earlier fiction and Descartes to analyze the ways in which Romantic vision is more stringently chastened by irony in Nostromo and The Secret Agent. The concluding chapter touches on several late novels before examining how competing models of political agency in Conrad's last great fiction of skepticism, Under Western Eyes, situate it somewhere between ideology critique and a mystified account of the exigencies of individual consciousness.
Author : Redmond O'Hanlon
Publisher : Humanities Press International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin written by Redmond O'Hanlon and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reg Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854350008
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Exotic Journeys written by Reg Wright and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342725199
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (251 download)
Download or read book The Works of Joseph Conrad; Volume 18 written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698137477
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Dawn Watch written by Maya Jasanoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world. Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in England as an author. He saw the surging, competitive "new imperialism" that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places “beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,” and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works—The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spell-binding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world—and through it to our own.
Author : J. H. Stape
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521484848
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad written by J. H. Stape and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.
Author : Richard Ruppel
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739178253
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad written by Richard Ruppel and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who gradually transformed himself into the English writer, Joseph Conrad, was a mercurial personality. He left Poland for the sea, though he had no experience with salt water. He left the Polish language for French, and then for English. He attempted suicide at the age of twenty. He invested in various schemes and lost his inheritance. He married an English typist nearly sixteen years younger than himself with whom he had nothing in common. He worked as a writer though he made no money through all the years of his most important work and though he experienced terrible psychological breakdowns after completing each novel. He was warm with his friends, ingratiating with influential strangers, but also intensely irritable and easily offended. His work is as varied and changeable as his personality, from his first two, emotionally intense Malay novels, to the stolid and confident Nigger of the “Narcissus” and “Typhoon”; from the coldly ironic “Outpost of Progress” to the nightmarishly subjective Heart of Darkness; from the leisurely, panoramic visions of Nostromo to the tautly nervous, claustrophobic ironies in The Secret Agent. Despite the extraordinary thematic and tonal range of his work, critics have imposed a stable political perspective on his fiction—most often an organic conservatism, influenced by his Polish background. This is understandable; until recently, a critic’s role has been to impose order on an artist’s creations. The approach in this book is different. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Jean-Francois Lyotard, especially on the latter’s critique of what he called “the grand narrative,” A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad shows how Conrad’s politics were always radically contingent on audience, contemporary events, and, especially, genre. While the political perspective in each of his stories and novels may be more-or-less coherent and consistent, there is no consistency throughout his work. A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad is the first book devoted exclusively to Conrad’s politics since the 1960s.
Author : Aaron Fogel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674136397
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Coercion to Speak written by Aaron Fogel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelists have individually distinctive ideas of dialogue, Aaron Fogel argues. In this analysis of Conrad's narrative craft he explores--with broad implications--the theory and uses of dialogue. Conrad's was a distinctive reading of the English language conditioned by his particular idea of forced speech and forced writing. Fogel shows how Conrad shaped ideas and events and interpreted character and institutions by means of dialogues representing not free exchange but various forms of forcing another to respond. He applied this format not only to the obvious political contexts, such as inquisition or spying, but also to seemingly more private relations, such as marriage, commerce, and storytelling. His idea of dialogue shaded the meanings he gave to words even to characters' names. Conrad is particularly interested in scenes in which a speech-forcer is surprised, repudiated, or punished. Fogel concludes that Conrad increasingly saw the punishment of the speech-forcer as classically related to Oedipus inquiries, in which the provoked answers rebound upon and destroy the forcer. This punishment is--as Shakespeare, Scott, and Wordsworth also dramatically intuited--the classical Oedipal dialogue scene. Fogel's analysis ranges widely over Conrad's fiction but focuses especially on Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes. His readings offer a balanced critique of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories about dialogic. Conrad's novels have many of the features Bakhtin identified as dialogical; but he was preoccupied with coercion in dialogue form. Fogel proposes that to understand this form is to begin to reconsider our political and aesthetic assumptions about what dialogue is or ought to be.
Author : George Levine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226475743
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Darwin and the Novelists written by George Levine and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian novel clearly joins with science in the pervasive secularizing of nature and society and in the exploration of the consequences of secularization that characterized mid-Victorian England. p. viii.
Author : John Glendening
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317032470
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels written by John Glendening and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominated by Darwinism and the numerous guises it assumed, evolutionary theory was a source of opportunities and difficulties for late Victorian novelists. Texts produced by Wells, Hardy, Stoker, and Conrad are exemplary in reflecting and participating in these challenges. Not only do they contend with evolutionary complications, John Glendening argues, but the complexities and entanglements of evolutionary theory, interacting with multiple cultural influences, thoroughly permeate the narrative, descriptive, and thematic fabric of each. All the books Glendening examines, from The Island of Doctor Moreau and Dracula to Heart of Darkness, address the interrelationship between order and chaos revealed and promoted by evolutionary thinking of the period. Glendening's particular focus is on how Darwinism informs novels in relation to a late Victorian culture that encouraged authors to stress, not objective truths illuminated by Darwinism, but rather the contingencies, uncertainties, and confusions generated by it and other forms of evolutionary theory.
Author : John Wylie Griffith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198183006
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma written by John Wylie Griffith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By situating Conrad's work in relation to other writings on 'primitive' peoples, John Griffith shows how his fiction draws on prominent anthropological and biological theories regarding the degenerative potential of contacts between European and other cultures. At the same time, however, Conrad's work reflected an anthropological dilemma: he constantly posed the question of how to bridge conceptual and cultural gaps between various peoples.
Author : Ludwig Schnauder
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042026162
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Free Will and Determinism in Joseph Conrad's Major Novels written by Ludwig Schnauder and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paradigmatic analysis of three of Conrad's most significant novels, "Heart of Darkness, Nostromo," and "The Secret Agent," investigates the writer's position in the free will and determinism debate by identifying recurring themes in which the freedom-of-the-will problem manifests itself.
