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A Preface to Conrad Cedric Watts

A Preface to Conrad By Cedric Watts

A Preface to Conrad by Cedric Watts

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Widely recommended, this guide to Conrad offers a vivid and incisive account of his life and literary career, and gives detailed attention to the contexts, themes, problems and paradoxes of his works.

A Preface to Conrad Summary

A Preface to Conrad: Second Edition by Cedric Watts

Widely recommended, this guide to Conrad offers a vivid and incisive account of his life and literary career, and gives detailed attention to the contexts, themes, problems and paradoxes of his works.

A Preface to Conrad Reviews

'One of the best introductions, with a stimulating first section embracing a large variety of biographical and cultural backgrounds (literary, political, religious and scientific).'An Annotated Critical Bibiolgraphy of Joseph Conrad, 92. 'The best intoductory book on this author to date' Conrdiana The most authoritative introduction'The Conradian

About Cedric Watts

Watts, Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Professor)

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Writer and his Setting; Chapter 1 Biographical background; Chapter 2 Cultural background; Part 2 The Art of Conrad; Chapter 3 Conrad on his art; Chapter 4 The pressure towards paradox; Chapter 5 The covert plot: three examples; Chapter 6 Textual commentaries; Chapter 7 Nostromo; Chapter 8 Heroes, heroines, gender and feminism; Chapter 9 Conrad's place in literary history; Part 3 Reference Section; symbp A list of symbolic or allegoric names in Conrad's fiction; Gazetteer; Short biographies;

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NLS9780582437685
9780582437685
0582437687
A Preface to Conrad: Second Edition by Cedric Watts
Cedric Watts
Preface Books
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2000-09-01
256
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