Joseph Conrad: A Literary Life, and: Conrad's Narrative Method (review)

1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-267
Author(s):  
Mark A. Wollaeger
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Narrative Method

Joseph Conrad: a literary life

1989 ◽  
Vol 27 (03) ◽  
pp. 27-1414-27-1414
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Literary Life

Joseph Conrad

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Berthoud
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad

Landmarks of a Literary Life 1820—1892

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Crosland
Keyword(s):  
Literary Life

The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Robert Madden ◽  
Marguerite Blessington
Keyword(s):  
Literary Life

Satire and Realism in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: an Interpretative Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Interpretative Analysis

Jane Austen is acknowledged for the application of realism and satire in her novels. This paper focuses on the analysis of realism and satire in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; however, her entire oeuvre spotlights the features (of satire and realism) alongside robust feminism: typical of her literary taste and temperament, not necessarily of the Romantic Age which she lived in. Rigorous analysis and realistic observation reveals that the employment of realism and satire in Pride and Prejudice, are quite obvious, in all sorts of aspects including narrative, settings, themes and characters. Analysis of the novel under study leads to the observation that satire and realism go hand in hand in the said novel—intermittently—and thoughtfully. Conclusively, it is observed that Jane Austen’s literary life had a tremendous influence on how to subsume realism (primarily through matrimonies) of age and satire on a romantic society (whereby ideals collapse headlong), in Pride and Prejudice.

Modernism, Space and the City

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Thacker
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Blaise Cendrars ◽  
Stephen Spender ◽  
Christopher Isherwood ◽  
The City

This innovative book examines the development of modernism in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. Focusing upon how literary and cultural outsiders represented various spaces in these cities, it draws upon contemporary theories of affect, mood, and literary geography to offer an original account of the geographical emotions of modernism. It considers three broad features of urban modernism: the built environment of the particular cities, such as cafés or transport systems; the cultural institutions of publishing that underpinned the development of modernism in these locations; and the complex perceptions of writers and artists who were outsiders to the four cities. Particular attention is thus given to the transnational qualities of modernism by examining figures whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles, or strangers. The writers and artists discussed include Mulk Raj Anand, Gwendolyn Bennett, Bryher, Blaise Cendrars, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Hope Mirlees, Noami Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sam Selon, and Stephen Spender.

Echohistoricism: Aristotle, Dryden, Montgomery, Conrad

Romanticism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-293
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
John Dryden ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Narrative Frame ◽  
Definition Of

The contingencies of military decisions and their outcomes have always shaped the course of literary history, determining even the languages in which it has been conducted. But modern literature takes a new bearing on its determinant military contingencies. This paper describes a modern literary scene that self-reflexively attributes to literature the potential to suspend these determining military events, and so to communicate the unactualised possibilities contained in past contingencies, even those that have been violently foreclosed. It is a scene of interested observers, adrift in a boat, who listen for the sounds of a distant naval battle. Having first located this scene's classical antecedents in Aristotle, I then track it through three pivotal and distinctively modern moments of literary self-periodization. In each instance, the scene is differently configured, articulating a specific conjuncture of war, textuality and literary self-definition. It appears in John Dryden as the setting of a modern critical dialogue on theatre, with James Montgomery as a Romantic definition of the poetry of sound in a lecture series on literature, and with Joseph Conrad as the narrative frame of a modernist tale within a tale. But the same scene re-echoes in all three – the scene of literary inscription as one in which, contingently, a war neither did nor did not take place, a battle was and was not fought.

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