ISBN: 9789042019140 - nostromo: centennial essays (conradian) (3 Ergebnisse)

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: viij, 116pp., [4]pp., 8 contributions with notes & references, notes on contributors. Very fine copy - as newe. Volume 29 - 2: Conradian. Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the century since its publication in 1904, Nostromo has taken its place among Conrad's masterpieces as a panoramic novel of revolution and a profound meditation on history and the effects of 'material interests' on human destiny. The eight new essays brought together in this volume examine the novel from various perspectives: as an epic, as a study in colonialism and the problem of 'homecoming,' as an exploration of free will and determinism, as a textual artefact, and as a reflection upon earlier works of European literature by Coleridge, Pushkin, and others.…