Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction
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Conrad's Fiction
Conrad's Protagonists
Conrad’s Fiction
Conrad’s Protagonists
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exilic condition in modern fiction
expatriate narratives
Expatriate Writer
Expatriate's Relationship
Expatriate’s Relationship
Functional Language
Ideological Communitas
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Jim's Story
Jim’s Jump
Jim’s Story
Liminal Being
liminality studies
narrative structure analysis
Natalia Haldin
Parent Culture
Personae
Peter Ivanovich
Polish Reader
Secret Agent
Secret Sharer
symbolic archetypes
transcultural literature
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Youngest Man
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- ISBN 9781032258799
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 2024
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Joseph Conrad is famous for being an unusual, strange, and even eccentric English writer. However, despite his difference, English criticism has primarily interpreted his fiction from the perspective of the English culture. In turn, Polish criticism has portrayed Conrad as a Pole who happened to write in English. Considering Conrad’s transcultural background, neither exclusively English nor an exclusively Polish writer, this volume investigates the essential features of his expatriate writing as a form distinctly different from any writing done within a single culture. Conrad's unique contribution to English literature and sensibility stems from his ability to incorporate the complexity of the exilic condition without discussing it explicitly. Furthermore, this book establishes Conrad's expatriation archetypes and examines them as they manifest themselves not only in a realistic, but, more importantly, in a symbolic mode. Those archetypal features demonstrate themselves through Conrad’s thematic choices, narrative structure, and critical discourse that reflect his complex relationship with both the parent and the adopted reader. While the existence of these patterns in Conrad's fiction are not entirely obvious, this book aims to illuminate Conrad’s contributions to the current critical debate concerning the place of the author in his/her own narrative.
Ludmilla Voitkovska received her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and a PhD equivalent from the University of Odessa, Ukraine. She is currently Professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan,. Her recent and forthcoming publications include: “‘The Bard of Selected Elements’: Conrad’s Reception in Russia” and “Conrad in Ukraine: An Untold Story” in The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe (forthcoming in 2022).
