Joseph Conrad and the modern temper [electronic resource] / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan

Author:: Erdinast-Vulcan, Daphna
Published:: Oxford : Clarendon, 1991.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (vi, 218 pages).

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Oxford English monographs

Summary:

A study of Conrad's work set against the crisis of modernity at the turn of the century. It discusses nine major novels and novellas, and presents Conrad as a "modernist at war with modernity" who, despite his affinity with the Nietzschean outlook, rejected its ultimate implications.

Subject(s):

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924—Criticism and interpretation
Modernism (Literature)—Great Britain

ISBN:

9780191671081 (ebook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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