Nostromo : centennial essays / edited by Allan Simmons, J. H. Stape.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simmons, Allan, 1955- editor.

Stape, J. H., editor.

Series:

Conradian.

Conradian

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.

Conrad, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, New York : Rodopi, [2004]

Summary:

In the century since its publication in 1904, Nostromo has taken its place among Conrad's masterpieces as a panoramic novel of revolution and a profound meditation on history and the effects of "material interests" on human destiny. The eight new essays brought together in this volume examine the novel from various perspectives: as an epic, as a study in colonialism and the problem of "homecoming," as an exploration of free will and determinism, as a textual artefact, and as a reflection upon earlier works of European literature by Coleridge, Pushkin, and others.

Contents:

Foreword

Contributors

Terry COLLITS: Anti-Heroics and Epic Failures: The Case of Nostromo

C. BROOK MILLER: Holroyd's Man: Tradition, Fetishization, and the United States in Nostromo

Ludmilla VOITKOVSKA: Homecoming in Nostromo

Amar ACHERAÏOU: "Action is consolatory": The Dialectics of Action and Thought in Nostromo

Ludwig SCHNAUDER: Free Will and Determinism in Nostromo

Xavier BRICE: Ford Madox Ford and the Composition of Nostromo

Mario CURRELI: Leitmotifs from Coleridge and Wagner in Nostromo and Beyond

Christopher CAIRNEY: Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and "The Horse of Stone" in Nostromo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Simmons, Allan H. Nostromo

ISBN:

90-04-48883-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004488830 DOI