Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction
Title | Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Francis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2015-04-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316300404 |
Andrew Francis' Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction is the first book-length critical study of commerce in Conrad's work. It reveals not only the complex connections between culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction, but also how he employed commerce in characterization, moral contexts, and his depiction of relations at a point of advanced European imperialism. Conrad's treatment of commerce - Arab, Chinese and Malay, as well as European - is explored within a historically specific context as intricate and resistant to traditional readings of commerce as simple and homogeneous. Through the analysis of both literary and non-literary sources, this book examines capitalism, colonialism and globalization within the commercial, political and social contexts of colonial Southeast Asia.
Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction
Title | Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Francis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2015-04-23 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107093988 |
Andrew Francis' Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction is the first book-length critical study of commerce in Conrad's work. It reveals not only the complex connections between culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction, but also how he employed commerce in characterization, moral contexts, and his depiction of relations at a point of advanced European imperialism. Conrad's treatment of commerce - Arab, Chinese and Malay, as well as European - is explored within a historically specific context as intricate and resistant to traditional readings of commerce as simple and homogeneous. Through the analysis of both literary and non-literary sources, this book examines capitalism, colonialism and globalization within the commercial, political and social contexts of colonial Southeast Asia.
Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad
Title | Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Salmons |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-07-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350168939 |
Examining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates the multicultural and transnational characters that comprise his fiction while locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English country gentleman. Conrad's characters are often marked by crossings – changes of nation, changes of culture, changes of identity – which refract Conrad's own cultural transitions. These crossings not only subjectivise the experience of the migrant through the modern complexities of technology and speed, but also through cross-cultural encounters of food and language. Collectively, these essays explore the experience of the migrant as exile; the inescapable intermeshing of migration, modernity and transnationalism as well as Conrad's own global and multicultural outlook. Conrad's work writes across historical, political and ethnic borders speaking to a transnational reality that continues to have relevance today.
The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad
Title | The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad PDF eBook |
Author | Debra Romanick Baldwin |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 387 |
Release | 2024-07-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1040047084 |
The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad attests to the global significance and enduring importance of Conrad’s works, reception, and legacy. This volume brings together an international roster of scholars who consider his works in relation to biography, narrative, politics, women’s studies, comparative literature, and other forms of art. They offer approaches as diverse as re-examining Conrad’s sea voyages using newly available digital materials, analyzing his archipelagic narrative techniques, applying Chinese philosophy to Lord Jim, interrogating gendered epistemology in the neglected story “The Tale,” considering Conrad alongside W.E.B. Du Bois, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, or Orhan Pamuk, or alongside sound, gesture, opera, graphic novels, or contemporary events. An invaluable resource for students and scholars of Conrad and twentieth-century literature, this groundbreaking collection shows how Conrad’s works – their artistry, vision, and ideas – continue to challenge, perplex, and delight.
Conrad's Secrets
Title | Conrad's Secrets PDF eBook |
Author | R. Hampson |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2012-08-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137264675 |
Conrad's Secrets explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, the book provides contexts for Conrad's fictions and produces original readings of his work.
Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages
Title | Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Burnet |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781915310309 |
The life of Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. The young Conrad dreamed of a life at sea and eventually became a British merchant seaman, working his way up from apprentice to captain on classic three-masted square-rigged barques. He would also become one of the most important novelists in the English language, and almost half of his life's work is set in Southeast Asia. Conrad's favorite destination was the vibrant, bustling port of Singapore as well as the remote ports of the Dutch East Indies, and his early works - Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim and The Rescue - are based on the people and places he encountered in his own voyages on the Vidar, a trading vessel that plied the waters of the Indonesian archipelago from its base in Singapore. In Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages, Ian Burnet places Conrad's Malay novels into their proper narrative sequence and explores the backstory of his characters helping the reader to visualize the cultural and historical context of Conrad's time in late 19th-century Southeast Asia.
A Smile of Fortune
Title | A Smile of Fortune PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783756256334 |