Conrad Without Borders: Transcultural and Transtextual Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781350293144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Brendan Kavanagh (Jagiellonian University Poland); the Jesuit Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny (Akademia Ignatianum; Poland) Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech (University of Silesia

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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