Author: Zdzisław Najder
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 820
ISBN-13: 9781571133472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Up-to-date and extensive revision of Najder's much-acclaimed scholarly biography of Conrad, employing newly accessible sources. Joseph Conrad is not only one of the world's great writers of English -- and world -- literature, but was a writer who lived a particularly full and interesting life. For the biographer this is a double-edged sword, however: thereare many periods for which documentation is uncommonly difficult. Zdzislaw Najder's meticulously documented biography first appeared in English in 1983, garnering high praise as the best, most complete biography of Conrad. Najder's command of English, French, Polish, and Russian allowed him access to a greater variety of sources than any other biographer, and his Polish background and his own experience as an exile have afforded him a unique affinity forConrad and his milieu. All this has come into play once again in the present, extensively revised edition: much of its extensive new material was unearthed in newly-opened former east-bloc archives. There is new material on Conrad's father's genealogy and his role in Polish politics; Conrad's service in the French and British merchant marines; his early English reading and correspondence; his experiences in the Congo; the circumstances of writing his memoirs, and much more. In addition, several aspects of Conrad's life and works are more thoroughly analyzed: his problems with the English language; his borrowings from French writers; his attitude toward socialism, his reaction to the reception of his books. Zdzislaw Najder teaches at the European Academy, Cracow.
Author: Heywood Broun
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-20
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 3752327677
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: Seeing Things At Night by Heywood Broun
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Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published:
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1610164989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: TERRENCE M. CURRY
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06-13
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9789492516633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This PhD thesis addresses learning to design and to propose a theoretical framework that explains how design expertise is acquired and why a highly developed sense of design is necessary to acquire design expertise. It looks at the topic from theoretical, philosophical, psychological, historical, evolutionary and cognitive science points of view.
Author: Paweł Jędrzejko
Publisher: M-Studio
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 8362023406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume came about as a result of a joint effort at a bifocal reflection of the international community of Melvillians and Conradians in Szczecin, Poland, in August 2007. What became clear in formal and informal discussion among the participants of that international gam was that Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski shared the intuition that the essential liquidity of the existential human condition necessitates a “universal squeeze of the hand.” This idea, beautifully conceptualized by Melville in chapter 94 of Moby-Dick, caused both writers to examine in their complex narratives the ways in which various kinds of oppression prevent this desired possibility (read more in the Introduction).
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Youth" and "Typhoon" in Woods' bibliography.
Author: S. Donovan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-09-30
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0230513778
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day. Drawing on original archival materials and treating subjects as diverse as Bovril advertising, spirit photography, sea shanties, global tourism, and the new sport of speed-walking, it shows how Conrad's fiction makes a sustained response to early-twentieth-century popular culture and will be of interest to all students, scholars and enthusiasts of Conrad.