scholarly journals El individuo y los sistemas políticos a través de tres novelas de Joseph Conrad

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Dorothy Stark de Valverde
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
Arthur Koestler ◽  
El Sistema

Resulta difícil definir en español el concepto de "novela política" que los críticos en literatura inglesa tan frecuentemente utilizan para describir cierto género, en que el sistema gubernativo puede ser escenario o catalizador de las acciones de los protagonistas.La novela política contemporánea, como la de Graham Greene, Arthur Koestler o George Orwell. es la resultante de un fenómeno que iniciaron Dostoievski y Corad, con su concepción del mundo político. En este análisis de las novelasde Conrad,enfatizó tres puntos fundamentales: a) la filosofía del autor acerca de los gobiernos, b) su filosofía del hombre, como ser solitario dentro de las estructuras político-sociales y c) la necesidad de principios morales tanto en el gobierno como en el ciudadano.

scholarly journals Ten books

2010 ◽  
Vol 196 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-163
Author(s):  
Sean A. Spence
Keyword(s):  
Don Delillo ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
House Officer ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Senior House Officer ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Anthony Burgess ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Bruce Chatwin

It is difficult, if not impossible, to systematically identify ten books that have been influential over a professional lifetime, not least since many have probably exerted their influence in long-forgotten ways: part of that semantic sediment laid down by protracted reading (and conversation). However, I do know that George Orwell was the first serious writer whom I read ‘of my own free will’ and I know that I would not wish to be without the works of Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Bruce Chatwin, Don DeLillo, Graham Greene, Henning Mankell or W.G. Sebald. I can remember that books on Buddhism sustained me through senior house officer jobs in a number of medical specialties (trying to focus, single-mindedly, on the task in hand rather than my tiredness or distraction), and I suspect that the metaphors of my thought and speech had already been much influenced by exposure to the Bible. Here, I focus on those books that have informed the way I think about psychiatry right now and how it might be practised.

“Swastika arms of passage leading to nothing”

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-173
Author(s):  
Ashley Maher
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Steel Structures ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Elizabeth Bowen ◽  
World War ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
Good Design ◽  
Stephen Spender ◽  
Christopher Isherwood ◽  
New Britain

Though the cross-medium modern style advocated by Herbert Read and Stephen Spender aimed to bring good design to political as well as aesthetic structures, the Ministry of Information mobilized modernist rhetoric for propaganda during World War II. British authors such as Graham Greene and Dylan Thomas scripted films promoting the “new Britain” to be achieved through architecture-led revolution, yet the politicization of style and wartime fears of double agents meant that Elizabeth Bowen, George Orwell, and Christopher Isherwood turned the intense focus on style to their own work. Bowen used the “swastika arms of passage leading to nothing” of the mock-Tudor Holme Dene to scrutinize her memory-laden, late modernist writing, while Orwell and Isherwood directed their attention to streamlined glass and steel structures to contemplate the potential duplicity of their seemingly candid vernacular style.

Introduction

Red Britain ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Matthew Taunton
Keyword(s):  
Russian Revolution ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Catastrophic Event ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
Arthur Koestler ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
British Culture

The introduction argues that the Russian Revolution should be understood as a fundamentally important precondition for mid-century British culture. It explains the range of intellectuals covered in the book, and the central importance of anti-Communists Arthur Koestler and George Orwell for its argument. It then outlines three key arguments that run through the book: first, that the effects of the Russian Revolution on British culture are best understood in terms of gradual sedimentation in a longue durée rather than as a catastrophic event; second, Red Britain emphasizes the ideological diversity on either side of the Cold War divide; third, that British responses to the Bolshevik Revolution should be understood not only as a clash of internationalist or cosmopolitan ideologies, but also as an episode within a longer history of nationally grounded Anglo-Russian cultural and political relations. The introduction ends with brief summaries of the book’s five chapters.

Conrad, Joseph (1857–1924)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Peters
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
British Novelists ◽  
African Writers ◽  
Post War ◽  
Secret Agent ◽  
First World

Joseph Conrad was one of the foremost British novelists of the modernist period. Many of the narrative innovations he developed appeared a decade or more before similar technical experimentation became the norm among modernist writers. Furthermore, his radical skepticism was a stark contrast to the Edwardian optimism evident in the years prior to the First World War and anticipates the disillusionment so many modernist writers felt during the post-war era. Best known for ‘Heart of Darkness’, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, ‘The Secret Sharer’, and Under Western Eyes, Conrad influenced numerous writers who followed him, such as William Faulkner, Graham Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and an entire generation of African writers who often found themselves in dialogue with Conrad {-} for example, Chinua Achebe and J. M. Coetzee.

Rosa Luxemburg and the Heart of Darkness

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 (94) ◽  
pp. 122-141
Author(s):  
Paul Le Blanc
Keyword(s):  
Herman Melville ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Winston Churchill ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
The World ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

'Imperialism', Rosa Luxemburg tells us, 'is the political expression of the process of the accumulation of capital in its competitive struggle over the unspoiled remainder of the noncapitalist world environment'. The realities analysed by this outstanding socialist revolutionary have also found significant reflection in classic writings of such literary icons as Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell. Conrad's racist conceptualisation in The Heart of Darkness shows us an idealistic imperialist, Kurtz, whose last words - 'the horror' - can be understood in opposite ways: as an idealism grotesquely corrupted when a 'civilising' white 'goes native' or, more persuasively, as a grotesque violence emanating from 'progressive' capitalist civilisation itself. Dark horrors visited upon innumerable victims in Africa, Asia, Latin America and among indigenous peoples of Australia and North America have been generated, as Luxemburg demonstrates in The Accumulation of Capital, from the very heart of European civilisation, permeated and animated as it is by the capital accumulation process. The eloquent justifications of Kurtz can be found in the glowing prose of - for example Winston Churchill: 'Let it be granted that nations exist and peoples labour to produce armies with which to conquer other nations, and the nation best qualified to do this is of course the most highly civilised and the most deserving of honour.' Yet the actual impacts have been summarised by W. E. B. Du Bois: 'There was no Nazi atrocity - concentration camps, wholesale maiming and murder, defilement of women or ghastly blasphemy of childhood - which the Christian civilization of Europe had not long been practicing against colored folk in all parts of the world in the name of and for the defense of a Superior Race born to rule the world.' Such horrors have afflicted not only vast 'peripheries' but have also defined modern and contemporary history in the civilised 'metropolis'.

Los sujetos que buscan la novedad y los sujetos impulsivos puntúan bajo en matutinidad

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 297-302
Author(s):  
H. Caci ◽  
P. Robert ◽  
P. Boyer
Keyword(s):  
Gen Y ◽  
El Sistema

ResumenLa dimensión bipolar de matutinidad-vespertinidad se refiere a los momentos preferidos del día para llevar a cabo diversas actividades (es decir, la fase del reloj circadiano). Está validada desde un punto de vista biológico, se asocia al menos con un gen y es heredable por medio de un mecanismo epistásico. Se ha utilizado como variable próxima para estudiar las relaciones entre el sistema circadiano, la per-sonalidad y las manifestaciones psicopatológicas: hay una correlación entre la orientación vespertina y la depresión, la extraversión y, pro-bablemente, la impulsividad. Además, hay una posible relación con el temperamento en nifios, segiin teorizaron Thomas y Chess. En este artículo, desarrollamos la hipótesis de que los sujetos impulsivos puntúan bajo en matutinidad realizando un análisis factorial de la Esca- la Compuesta de Matutinidad, el Inventario del Temperamento y el Carácter de Cloninger y el Inventario de Ansiedad como Rasgo de Spielberger en una muestra de 129 varones. Probablemente, los resultados se pueden extender a mujeres. La matutinidad correlaciona negativamente con la búsqueda de novedad (que incluye una faceta de impulsividad), correlaciona positivamente con la persistencia y es independiente de las dimensiones de carácter y la ansiedad como rasgo. La investigación futura puede centrarse en la participación del sistema circadiano en estas dimensiones y facetas de la personalidad, y los beneficios de afiadir manipulaciones cronoterapéuticas en el tratamiento de los trastornos de la personalidad.

Joseph Conrad

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