From Szlachta Culture to the XXI Century, Between East and West: New Essays on Joseph Conrad's Polishness (East European Monographs, 22) - Hardcover

Krajka, Wiesław

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880337036 ISBN 13: 9780880337038

Publisher: East European Monographs, 2013

Synopsis

The volume opens with an appreciation of Conrad's Polishness by Jerzy Buzek, The President of the European Parliament. Its first section provides new illuminations of Polishness in Conrad's personality and oeuvre: from the szlachta cultural heritage of his ancestors and Polish contextualizations of "Prince Roman" through some aspects of the writer's identity and references to Polish culture and autobiographical elements in his works to their Polish translations and reception. The Eastern-Western frame for these studies is provided by insights into some relations of his literary works to Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Turgenev) and their reception in Ukraine and Germany. The essays represent various methodological approaches to studies in biography, historical-cultural contextualizations of literature, fact-and-fiction relationships, history of ideas, literary reception (documented surveys, translative and creative reception) and comparative literary criticism.

About this title

About the Author:

Wieslaw Krajka is a professor in the English Department at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. His research covers mainly English nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature (especially Joseph Conrad), literary theory, and comparative literature. He is editor the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives and the the principal organizer of five international Conrad conferences at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin.

Review:

Another exciting contribution to Conrad Studies, providing a powerful analysis of Polish and East Central European contexts in Conrad’s biography, together with interpretation of archival sources, studies in literary history, comparative literary criticism, and the reception of Conrad’s works in Poland, Ukraine, and Germany, by scholars from Europe and elsewhere. (Modern Language Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: East European Monographs
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0880337036
• ISBN 13: 9780880337038
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400