Essays on Conrad
- Author: Ian Watt
- Date Published: September 2000
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521783873
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Ian Watt (1917–99) has long been acknowledged as one of the finest of post-War literary critics. The Rise of the Novel (1957) is still the landmark account of the way in which realist fiction developed in the eighteenth century and Watt's work on Conrad has been enormously influential. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century (1979) was to have been followed by a volume addressing Conrad's later work, but the material for this long-awaited second volume remains in essay form. It is these essays, as Frank Kermode points out in his foreword, which form the nucleus of Essays on Conrad. Watt's own worldview, as well as his insight into Conrad's work, was shaped by his experiences as a prisoner of war on the River Kwai. His personal, and painfully moving, account of these experiences forms part of his famous essay 'The Bridge over the River Kwai as Myth' which completes this essential collection.
Read more- Landmark collection of essays by Ian Watt, leading post-war critic
- Ian Watt's essays mostly on the later work of Conrad, taking place of long-awaited follow-up to Conrad in the Nineteenth Century, which will now never appear because of Watt's death last year
- Also includes famous and moving account of Watt's experiences as a prisoner on the River Kwai, and foreword by Sir Frank Kermode
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- Date Published: September 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521783873
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.33kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword: Frank Kermode
1. Joseph Conrad: alienation and commitment
2. Almayer's Folly: introduction
3. Conrad criticism and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
4. Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the critics
5. Comedy and humour in Typhoon
6. Political and social background of The Secret Agent
7. The Secret Sharer: introduction
8. Conrad, James and Chance
9. Story and idea in The Shadow-Line
10. The decline of the decline: notes on Conrad's reputation
11. Around Conrad's grave
12. 'The Bridge over the River Kwai' as myth.
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