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The anthology consists of essays authored by scholars of different nationalities from diverse cultures, nations and primary languages. They cover Conrad’s presence across multiple media (fiction, films, comics, and graphic novels). The collection is unique because the contributors focused on Conrad’s presence in contemporary culture – a constantly changing field – rather than well-trodden paths. The exploration of Polish, French, Italian, Spanish, English and American works of art strengthens its originality. The artists discussed in connection with Conrad include Olga Tokarczuk, Stanisław Lem, Robert Silveberg, Loic Godart, Christian Bobin, Christian Perrissin, Tom Tirabosco, Eduardo Berti, J.M. Coetzee, Michelangelo Antonioni. Last but not least, the volume contains 20 stunning reproductions in full colour from films, graphic novels and comics.

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“Original, wide-ranging and authoritative, this long-standing series unites scholars from around the globe to present the field of Anglophone literature(s) in all its cultural, historical, national and ethnic variety. Paying attention to both grand-scale developments and significant detail, the series’ incisive volumes explore the outer horizons of modern cultural enquiry while being united by a shared sense of critical rigour and scholarly imagination.” - Eva Zettelmann, University of Vienna, Austria and Sylvia Mieszkowski, University of Vienna, Austria

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Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech is Professor of English Literature at the University of Silesia, Poland, and Vice-President of the Polish Joseph Conrad Society. She published on Conrad, T.S. Eliot, G.B. Shaw, H.Pinter, J. Verma. Her recent monograph is entitled Adaptations of J.Conrad’s Life and Works in Contemporary Culture. Nathalie Martinière is a full professor at the Department of English, University of Limoges where she teaches literature. She is the author of Figures du Double: du personage au texte and has more recently co-edited Rewriting in the 20th-21st Centuries: Aesthetic Choice or Political Act?. She is the editor of L’Epoque Conradienne. Josiane Paccaud-Huguet was Emeritus Professor of Modernist literature at Université Lumière-Lyon 2. She was also a psychoanalyst. She published on Conrad and K. Mansfield, V. Woolf and M. Lowry. She published a monograph on Conrad (with C. Maisonnat) and a critical edition of Au Cœur des Ténèbres. Véronique Pauly is senior lecturer at the University of Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines-Paris-Saclay where she teaches literature. She has published on Joseph Conrad, edited Nostromo for the 2007 Penguin Black Classics edition and, more recently, co-edtited The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe.

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