Conrad Without Borders

Transcultural and Transtextual Perspectives

Brendan Kavanagh, Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny, Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-29318-2 (ISBN)

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A diverse and multinational volume, this book showcases the passages of Joseph Conrad’s narratives across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, focusing on the transtextual and transcultural elements of his fiction. Featuring contributions from distinguished and emergent Conrad scholars, it unpacks the transformative meanings which Conrad's narratives have achieved in crossing national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries.

Featuring studies on the reception of Conrad in modern China, an exploration of Conrad's relationship with India, a comparative study of the hybrid art of Conrad and Salman Rushdie, and the responses of Conrad’s narratives to alternative media forms, this volume brings out transtextual relations among Conrad’s works and various media forms, world narratives, philosophies, and emergent modes of critical inquiry. Gathering essays by contributors from Canada, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this volume constitutes an inclusive, transnational networking of emergent border-crossing scholarship.

Brendan Kavanagh is Postdoctoral Project Researcher at the Joseph Conrad Research Centre of Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny is Associate Professor at the Department of Literature Studies of the Institute of Modern Languages at Akademia Ignatianum, the Jesuit University, Kraków, Poland. Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, and Vice-President of the Polish Joseph Conrad Society.

List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part 1 Transtextual and Transcultural Bridges
1 Conrad’s Triple Perspective: History, Memory, Fiction
Jakob Lothe
2 Conrad as a Reader of Adam Mickiewicz’s Grazyna
Karol Samsel
3 An Epistemological and Denegative Reinterpretation in the Faulknerian Context of Conrad’s Malay Tale: “The Planter of Malata”
Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny
4 The Power “not to”: Agambenian Thought in Conrad’s Victory and Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust
Pei-Wen Clio Kao
5 “Ich bin nicht einer von euch”: Language as a Tool to Construct the Identities of Conrad’s German-Speaking Characters
Ewa Kujawska-Lis
Part 2 Transmedial and Transnational Negotiations
6 Time, Place, Scale, and Decorum: Conrad and the Polish Romantic Drama
Laurence Davies
7 The “Curve” of Time: Modes of Imaginative Inquiry in Under Western Eyes
Anne Luyat
8 Conrad’s Afterlife: Adaptations of Conrad’s Biography in Contemporary Polish Culture
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech
9 Communication with Marconi’s Electric Waves: Conrad and Wireless Telegraphy
Kazumichi Enokida
10 Representing Conrad in Modern China
Gloria Kwok Kan Lee
11 The Man Who Foresaw It All: Joseph Conrad and India
Narugopal Mukherjee
Part 3 Transtextual and Transcultural Politics
12 Transcultural Negotiations: A Personal Record, “Prince Roman,” and “The Warrior’s Soul”
Robert Hampson
13 Rereading Under Western Eyes from the Polish Perspective
Joanna Skolik
14 The Dangerous Subject Is the Displaced Subject: Conrad’s Short Fictions
George Z. Gasyna
15 “I Must Live Till I Die—Mustn’t I?”: The Hybrid Art of Joseph Conrad and Salman Rushdie
G. W. Stephen Brodsky
16 Metropolitan Terror in The Secret Agent: Truth and Fiction in a Surreal Drama
Gerard Kilroy
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	6 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-29318-0 / 1350293180
ISBN-13	978-1-350-29318-2 / 9781350293182
Zustand	Neuware