Conrad and Turgenev: Towards the Real - Rilegato

Sokolowska, Katarzyna

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ISBN 10: 0880336838 ISBN 13: 9780880336833

Casa editrice: East European Monographs, 2011

Riassunto

The twentieth volume in the "Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives" series, Conrad and Turgenev: Towards the Real offers a comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad's and Ivan Turgenev's output and focuses on their outlooks and ideas concerning art, personality, and history. The analysis is based on Conrad's and Turgenev's major novels such asLord Jim, Nostromo, Almayer's Folly, And Outcast of the Islands,The Return, Victory, The Secret Agent and Rudin, Home of the Gentry,One the Eve, Fathers and Sons, Smoke, as well as selected novellas, short stories, essays and letters. The affinities and differences between the two writers are discussed within the framework of realism and modernism. Main problems addressed are the relation between reality and representation in the two author's major works; the concept of the self and its duality, and the pessimistic vision of history devoid of purpose. The study is intended to highlight the affinities between Conrad and Turgenev, to acquaint the readers with those aspects of Turgenev's output that form the context for Conrad's oeuvre, to trace the echoes of Turgenev's aesthetics and worldview in Conrad's texts and to show how Conrad, a disciple of great realist masters, balanced his new modernist awareness against Turgenev who relies on the framework of realism.

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L'autore:

Katarzyna Sokolowska is an assistant professor at the Center for Conrad Studies in the English Department of Maria Currie-Skolodowska University in Lisbon, Poland.

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Book by Sokolowska Katarzyna

Su questa edizione

• Editore: East European Monographs
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0880336838
• ISBN 13: 9780880336833
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 353