Essays on Conrad / Ian Watt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watt, Ian, 1917-1999, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.

Conrad, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ian Watt (1917-99) has long been acknowledged as one of the finest of post-War literary critics. The Rise of the Novel (1957) is still the landmark account of the way in which realist fiction developed in the eighteenth century and Watt's work on Conrad has been enormously influential. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century (1979) was to have been followed by a volume addressing Conrad's later work, but the material for this long-awaited second volume remains in essay form. It is these essays, as Frank Kermode points out in his foreword, which form the nucleus of Essays on Conrad. Watt's own worldview, as well as his insight into Conrad's work, was shaped by his experiences as a prisoner of war on the River Kwai. His personal, and painfully moving, account of these experiences forms part of his famous essay 'The Bridge over the River Kwai as Myth' which completes this essential collection.

Contents:

Foreword: Frank Kermode

Joseph Conrad: alienation and commitment

Almayer's Folly: introduction

Conrad criticism and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'

Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the critics

Comedy and humour in Typhoon

Political and social background of The Secret Agent

The Secret Sharer: introduction

Conrad, James and Chance

Story and idea in The Shadow-Line

The decline of the decline: notes on Conrad's reputation

Around Conrad's grave

'The Bridge over the River Kwai' as myth.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11994-4

0-511-01374-4

1-280-15906-5

0-511-11854-6

0-511-15590-5

0-511-32533-9

0-511-48534-4

0-511-04999-4

OCLC:

475915002