Conrad's Decentered Fiction
Author:   Johan Adam Warodell (University of Sussex)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9781316512197


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   17 March 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Johan Adam Warodell (University of Sussex)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781316512197


ISBN 10:   1316512193
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   17 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part I. Preprint Documents: Paper, Pen and Ink: 1. Doodles and The Shadow-Line; 2. Maps and Victory, 'Geography and Some Explorers', 'The Secret Sharer', and An Outcast of the Islands; 3. Drawings and The Sisters; Part II. Published Texts: Working Method and Philosophy: 4. Decoding and 'Heart of Darkness'; 5. Distraction and 'Heart of Darkness', Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes; 6. Details and The Secret Agent; Part III. Patterns and Preoccupations: Marginal Voices and Characters: 7. Voices and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'; 8. Hats, Nostromo, 'The Secret Sharer', and The Secret Agent; 9. Animals, 'Heart of Darkness', and 'The Planter of Malata'.

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'... a valuable and unique contribution to Conrad scholarship ... Recommended' J. G. Peters, Choice 'a convincing and original perspective ... reverses the meaning of literary marginality as we know it today' Tania Zulli, The Cambridge Quarterly 'a thoroughly diverting book' Hugh Epstein, The Conradian 'an impressive series of critical firsts' Nic Panagopoulos, English Studies 'like no other book of Conrad criticism ... a cabinet of curiosities: a collection of details that Conradians have consistently overlooked' Yael Levin, Journal of Modern Literature 'Conrad's Decentred Fiction reaches those parts other studies cannot reach, and Warodell observes things about Conrad's work that no critic has observed before' Nic Panagopoulos, Joseph Conrad Today 'This is a bold and imaginative book' Kim Salmons, Modern Fiction Studies 'Warodell points to a goldmine of descriptive detail in Conrad' Beci Carver, English


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Johan Adam Warodell's articles on Joseph Conrad have appeared in The Cambridge Quarterly, Conradiana, The Conradian, English, and Notes & Queries, and won prizes from both the British and American Joseph Conrad Societies. He translated Olof Lagercrantz's monograph on Conrad and has also published on Woolf, Nabokov, and Melville.

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