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Conrad's Polish Footprints. I International Joseph Conrad Conference at UMCS Lublin, Baranów Sandomierski 8-10 September 1991. Abstracts

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    Introduction: Conrad's Polish Footprints. - Abstracts: I. Opening pleneary: Juliet McLauchlan: Conrad's "Few very simple ideas". II. Conrad's Polish, Central and East European contexts: 1. Conrad and Central Europe (the German-speaking countries): Stig Nystrand: Joseph Conrad and the Central-European tradition. His fiction and philosophy. - Ivo Vidan: Conrad and Thomas Mann. - 2. Conrad's Polonian and Polish reception: Leo V. Krzywkowski: Joseph Conrad's effect on Polonian education 1875-1940. - Wiesław Krajka: Conrad and Poland: Under the eyes of my generation. 3. Conrad's Polish biography and identity: Karol Kosek: J.T.K. Korzeniowski's education and the influence of Polish school in Galicja (1868-1874) on the mentality and literary culture of Conrad. - Grażyna Branny: "Homo Duplex": Kurtz and Marlow as Conrad's doubles in "Heart of Darkness". - Ernest W. Sullivan: Joseph Conrad tries to prove who he is: Life insurance form as autobiography. 4. Conrad's Polish cultural and literary heritage: Andrzej Braun: The idea of a mystery in Conrad's writing. - Jean M. Szczypień: "Nostromo": Some Polish associations. 5. Conrad and Polish contemporary literature: Eugenia Łoch: Conradian inspiration in Iwaszkiewicz's short stories.- Alex Kurczaba: Gombrowicz and Conrad: The question of autobiography. 6 Conrad and Russia: Gerald Morgan: Herzen, Bakunin, Korzeniowski, "Under Western Eye's".- Katarzyna Sokołowska: Verloc and Stavrogin: Two versions of personality disintegration. 7. Conrad: East and West: Eloise Knapp Hay: Reconstructing East and West in Conrad's eyes.- III. Language, narration and composition of Conrad's text: 1. Narration: Jakob Lothe: Narrators and characters in "Lord Jim".- Keith Carabine: The old teacher and the "Tragic character" of "Under Western Eyes".- Claire Hobbs: "A wilderness of words" Joseph Conrad translating the untranslatable. 2. Theory of reading: Jeremy Hawthorn: Joseph Conrad's theory of reading.- Beatrice Battaglia: Ford Madox Ford: Joseph Conrad - a personal remembrance. 3. Language varieties: John Crompton: Conrad and colloquialism. 4. Language and epistemology: Claude Maisonnat: Discursive deception and the quest for meaning in "Almayer's Folly". - Robert Foulke: From the center to the dangerous hemisphere: "Heart of Darkness" and "Typhoon". 5. Composition: Lilia Kuznetsova: On typology of the beginnings in J. Conrad's novels. - Laurence Davies: ...Continuations, endings: The inflation of Conrad's stories. - 6. Authorial distance self-redefinitions of artiscic ideals: Won Yoo-kyeong: Conrad's journey as an artist. - Richard Ambrosini: Conrad's "Paper Boats". - Ray Stevens: A milch-cow's over view of sailing ships, and other Conradian perspectives in the lighter later essays. - IV. Literary trends, modes, conventions and traditions in Conrad's writings. 1. Literary kinds and genres: Marta Wiszniowska: Conrad - a Playwright manque? - Richard Ruppel: "The Lagoon" and the popular exotic tradition. 2. Conrad and modernism: Sean Molloy: Conrad, Joyce. and the English reader. - George Hyde: Conrad and literary impressionism. - Adrian M. de Lange: Impressionism and intertextuality in Conrad 1896-1899. 3. Literary themes and motifs: Marly A. de Oliveira: The Double in Conrad and Rubiao. John Lester: Points of deoarure. 4. The comic in Conrad: G.W. Stephen Brodsky: The Conrad harlequinade: Bakhtin, Rabelais and Conrad's comic "szlachcic" spirit. - Antonio E. de Oliveira: The carnivalesque in Conrad. - Marzena Besztak: The comic in "The Black Mate". - V. Conradian mythological and philosophical perspectives. 1. The archetypal, the mythical: Peter Caracciolo: Conrad's use of the expatrial allusion. - John A. Crumley: Jungian symbolism and the unity of "Lord Jim". - Robert Hampson: Joseph Conrad and the formation of legends. - Andrzej Wicher: The element of anarchy in Conrad's political novels. - Tadeusz Rachwał, Tadeusz Sławek: D'abord a bord: Conrad's borrowed home. 2. The etics: Daniel V. Faustino: Self-reliance in the "Heart of Darkness". - Derek Chisholm: The ethical core of Joseph Conrad's works: A new interpretation. - VI. The gender in Conrad 1. The gender: Paul B. Armstrong: Misogyny and the ethics of reading: The problrm of Conrad's "Chance". - Padmini Mongia: Empire, narrative and the feminine in "Lord Jim" and "Heart of Darkness". 2. Gender and colonialism: Gail Fraser: Conrad, miscegenation and imperialism. Heliena M. Krenn: The "beautiful" world of women - women as reflections of colonial issues in Conrad's Malay novels. - VII. Conradian ideology and politics. 1. Ideology and language: Anthony Fothergill: The poetics of particulars: pronouns, punctation and ideolgy in "Heart of Darkness". - Paul Hollywood: Anarchist theories of language and Conrad. 2. The African and American context: Phil Joffe: Conrad: "Bloody Racist" or demystifier of imperialism: Africa and "Heart of Darkness". - Myrtle Hooper: The heart of light: Silence in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". - William Bonney: Joseph Conrad's Latin American frontier: Predominant metaphors and social dynamics. VIII. Closing plenary lecture: Adam Gillon: Adapting Conrad to film: "Dark Country".


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